President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, met on Friday with a delegation from the Syndicate of Teachers in Private Schools, headed by Rodolphe Abboud, at the Presidential Palace.
The meeting addressed teacher conditions in private schools, and the problems which they suffer from in light of the current financial crisis which Lebanon is witnessing.
Abboud stated the most prominent problems that the sector suffers from in light of the current conditions, “which motivated thousands of teachers to emigrate from the educational sector or to emigrate the homeland in search of job opportunities which meets some of the needs of a normal life, especially after the promises received”.
“The teachers’ crisis extended even after their retirement, and those who retired among them were deprived of their rights in Law 46 and in the six grades, and the suffering continues,” Abboud added.
In addition, Abboud also pointed out the teachers’ suffering in terms of their inability to obtain hospitalization after the high financial cost of doing so, indicating that the educational officials of private schools should implement Law 46 and give six grades to all teachers and professors, as well as pay the arrears resulting from the non-application of this law, give additional financial incentives to teachers and apply the new transportation allowance.
Abboud also pointed out that “Political officials should form a government capable of restoring the country’s advancement to be able to carry out its national duties under difficult circumstances, curb the insane rise of the dollar, return what was possible to return from the purchasing value of our national currency and carry out the necessary reforms, in addition to securing fuel for teachers to move to schools via monthly vouchers, the issuance of the financing card as an integral part of the correction of salaries and wages, the approval of the 500 billion Lebanese pound bill for education in the public and private sectors, the approval of the student support law in public and private schools at one million Lebanese pounds, in addition to the support of the guarantor institutions, in addition to pressuring the Central Bank and the Association of Banks to release the salaries of serving teachers and the salaries and compensations of retired teachers”.
After the meeting, Abboud made the following statement:
“We were honored to meet with His Excellency the President, who gives priority to finding solutions to the problems that Lebanon suffers from, especially the problems of the educational sector and teachers. In fact, we leave our meeting with His Excellency the President assured that the problems we presented to him will receive sufficient attention and effective solutions.
We hope that the formation of the government will facilitate the implementation of the required reforms and that the entire educational sector will cooperate in what between them”.
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