Minister of Education denied that AVEC teachers are being asked to resign

Published at: 12/11/2024 08:48 AM

The Ministry of Education is not requesting that teachers who work in schools of the Venezuelan Association of Catholic Education (AVEC) and at the same time in public institutions have to resign from one of the two shifts, clarified the head of that office, Héctor Rodríguez.

“What was reported to the AVEC is that if you are a teacher at an AVEC school, and you are a teacher at a public school, you have to be a part-time teacher. It's logical, isn't it? It can't be full time in the AVEC school and full time in public school, because there's no way for a human being to be in two places at the same time,” Rodríguez argued during a tour of the José Enrique Rodó Educational Unit (EU), in the 23 de Enero parish in Caracas.

In this regard, the minister denied the alleged order to resign teachers from institutions subsidized by the National Government and administered by religious.

“There are teachers who work the morning shift in a public school and in the afternoon in another school, whether public, private or subsidized. That's totally natural. There are many teachers who work in two institutions, but on a part-time basis. You can't work in two institutions full time, that's impossible, no human being can work in two places at the same time,” he added.

Rodríguez, according to a press release from the Education Department, insisted that he has an obligation to organize this issue and considered that no one “should be upset about it”, because “to improve the material conditions of workers, the first thing to do is to bring order”, because, he said, there is a record of teachers working full time in two institutions at the same time.

“What we are asking is that we order ourselves. What school do you teach at? What time are you going to teach at this school? What time are you going to teach at another school? (...) We are going to organize ourselves, it's a completely natural, rational thing, that what it seeks is to improve the education of our children,” he stressed.

In this context, the Minister of Education praised the work of these subsidized institutions: “I come from an AVEC school. All my support, my solidarity, my affection, my love, my support to the AVEC schools, which do great good to the country's education.”

Mazo News Team