According to a statement posted on its Facebook page, the syndicate’s demands include the following:
• Granting tenure to teachers in northern Syria.• Reinstating all teachers unlawfully dismissed by the former regime.• Raising salaries and wages to ensure a dignified standard of living worthy of teachers and the noble mission of education.• Activating the external transfer system in a way that ensures fairness and equality among teachers.
The syndicate said the statement stems from its responsibility and duty to defend teachers’ rights, calling on the Syrian government to move swiftly to meet what it described as legitimate demands, in order to preserve the stability of the educational process and ensure its continuity in a way that serves the country’s children and their future.
Khaled Asad al-Mousa, the syndicate’s representative for the city of al-Ra’i (northern Aleppo, near the Turkish border), told Enab Baladi that the syndicate formed a delegation to petition the Ministry of Education in late August.
He added that the ministry promised to meet their demands at the beginning of September, then postponed to the beginning of October, and again to the beginning of November.
Al-Mousa said the syndicate also met with the Governor of Aleppo and his deputy, the head of the Education Directorate in the governorate, and the area director in Azaz (northern Aleppo), noting they received promises only, with none carried out so far.
He explained that the decision to suspend work was driven by several reasons, including:
• Failure to grant tenure despite repeated assurances.• Low teacher pay compared with other public-sector employees.• Failure to approve teachers’ external transfer requests to their home areas in other governorates, as they lack civil service ID numbers.• Lack of school textbooks more than six weeks into the academic year.• Shortages of heating fuel in many schools despite the approach of winter.• Excluding teachers from educational decision-making.
Al-Mousa said the suspension would initially last one week, adding that a protest could be held in front of the Education Directorate building in Aleppo (northwest Syria) next Thursday if teachers agree.
On November 1, the Free Syrian Teachers Syndicate issued a statement calling on all male and female teachers to continue peaceful action through sit-ins inside schools on November 2.
The syndicate affirmed that those initial sit-ins would be followed by larger, centralized ones in the coming days, with the outcomes determining subsequent escalation steps if teachers’ demands are not met.
It stressed the peaceful nature of its movement and the unity of its ranks, urging adherence to a spirit of responsibility and solidarity until the “just and legitimate” demands are achieved.
The statement came one day before the syndicate published photos on its Facebook page of a sit-in organized by a number of teachers from schools in rural northern Aleppo.
The syndicate said the sit-in expressed teachers’ anger over what it described as the Ministry of Education and the Aleppo Education Directorate’s failure to deliver on promises to grant tenure, reinstate dismissed teachers, and activate external transfers, in addition to salary deductions and delays.
Calls for tenure and salary payments
Hundreds of teachers demonstrated in towns and cities across the northern and eastern Aleppo countryside, including Azaz (northern Aleppo), al-Bab (eastern Aleppo), Afrin (northwest Aleppo), Jarablus (northeast Aleppo on the Euphrates), and Mare (northern Aleppo), demanding tenure and the payment of overdue salaries.
On September 3, protesting teachers held signs asserting that delays and foot-dragging by the Ministry of Education and the Aleppo Education Directorate amount to an affront to their efforts and sacrifices.
The demonstrations followed calls issued by the Free Syrian Teachers Syndicate, which posted a statement on its Facebook page on September 1 urging teachers to stage simultaneous sit-ins in various cities and towns formerly under the Syrian Interim Government’s control in northern Syria.
Lacks precision
At the time, the media office of the Aleppo Education Directorate told Enab Baladi that the statement issued by the Free Syrian Teachers Syndicate lacked precision in some of its points.
It explained that combining demands to reinstate those dismissed for their positions on the revolution with the demands of teachers in the north is misplaced, especially since procedures to reinstate the dismissed have already begun.
For his part, Mohammad Abdulrahman, the Deputy Director of Education in Aleppo, said teachers working in northern education clusters had been receiving their salaries from the Turkish government until July 1.
He noted that the teachers’ names were not listed in the Aleppo Education Directorate’s database.
Abdulrahman, in remarks published by the Aleppo Education Directorate on its Facebook page, said the directorate created a dedicated database including around 18,000 teachers, and that the size of this number requires additional time to complete procedures in full.
He added that the directorate submitted a proposal to disburse financial entitlements to the Ministry of Education and the General Secretariat of the Presidency, and obtained approval.
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