After meeting with the directors of the Federation of Magisterial (FOM), Agurcia said they will continue on holiday this month, as the Law of Education has established that the enrollment period for school is from February to November.
“We’re not going to break the law for which we fought, and no decree is above the law,” she warned.
The teacher explained that the intention is not to boycott the start of classes, because they recognize they have a commitment to the Honduran society to develop the academic term, “but unfortunately, the government requires us to be up in arms and defend our interests”.
To start classes with their best effort, teachers are demanding the government honors the payment of an “incentive bonus” promised to them by Zelaya’s administration, of 3,124 lempiras per teacher, due in September and again in November, as well as last year’s vacation they are owed.
According to the Union, there are 3,500 teachers who did not receive payment last year.
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Yes miraclemant, that is how twisted things are in the beautiful country of Honduras.
The teachers care more about ensuring to receive money that they have not earned nor deserve than to educate the children under their care.
When most foreigners go to Honduras they do not notice the lack of education and/or the poor level at which it is because the language is foreign to them, but the common people of Honduras now writes and speaks a very poor version of Spanish.
The nature of human beings being what it is, many people would be offended by the above statements, but believe me that I only use them to demostrate how incapable are those same teachers of teaching the correct way.
I have seen notes and text messages written by so-called teachers which have horrendous spelling mistakes, or that fail to get the correct message across because of the wrong sintaxys.
And now they go on strike for 7 months of the school year in order to demmand a promise be kept.
A promise that was made not because they deserved the money, but one that was made by Zelaya to purchase their votes in the upcoming (at the time) referendum and elections.
And so now, we have our teachers pushing a political agenda.
It is a sad case of neglect and destruction of the social fabric, but what can I say, look at Obama, he lied about what hapenned in Honduras, saying that a Coupe had occurred when it had not, and that allowed him to punnish econmically one of the poorest countries in the world.
This Communists, it is hard to understand their kind of love for the people.
The only laws that they do not break are the ones that are convenient to them.
Bunch of lazy communists, that is what they are.
In the meantime, the children suffer for their lack of love for country and its people.
Since all my children are either post school age, and one child pre-school age, I have not kept up on what is going on with the schools….. are you really saying that their has been no school for the past 7 months??
So, if the teachers are paid what they are asking for, are they then going to forfeit all the money they got paid while they did not work the last 7 months?