next year 179 professorships will be lost

Fewer students and more redundant teachers put the school on alert on the eve of the next school year. The demographic decline that shows no signs of stopping is increasing the number of jobs being lost. According to what transpires from local trade union organizations based on information from the‘Regional school office, there are 179 tenured teachers from Salerno who have lost their place of ownership due to the contraction in the presence of students on the legal staff. It happens on the eve of the next school year which will mark the most serious drop in enrolled students ever recorded in the last ten years.

THE NUMBERS
There will be 2,830 fewer pupils in attendance from September 2024, while in September 2023 enrollments were down by 2,800 units. Here are 179 loser teachers who will have to submit a transfer application to find a new school from next year. When in a school there is a decrease in the number of students compared to the previous school year, the headmaster must note the consequences that have repercussions on the institution’s staff: the contraction of classes corresponds, in fact, to a contraction of teaching staff. To identify supernumerary teachers, internal rankings are drawn up based on the score deriving from length of service, family needs and the qualifications held by each one. You become supernumerary when you are unable to create a full teaching position in your school. Of the 179 teachers losing their positions, 45 are registered at nursery school, 22 at primary school, 40 at middle school, 72 at high school.
THE VOICES
«Last week the schools in the province of Salerno received the data relating to their teaching staff – he says Susy Parrillo, territorial representative of Uil Salerno school – Despite the commitment of the Salerno Territorial Area, which worked to contain the number of job losers as much as possible, the decline in the birth rate and the sizing process have produced inevitable and physiological cuts”. Cuts that translate into tenured teachers forced to apply for mobility. «Thus, general and support teachers, of every order and rank, were called to produce a transfer request in a few hours – adds Parrillo – our offices welcomed and assisted staff who were mostly lost, because some were caught off guard . Their anxiety and concern in the face of uncertainty about their future place of employment is evident. The wait will be long: the results will be known on May 27th and we hope that they will find the least disadvantaged locations possible.” Dramatic numbers also provided by Cisl Salerno school. Despite a decrease in the number of students in the province of Salerno of 2,830 compared to last year, at least the staff positions are unchanged. From September we will have 13,288 tenured professorships in the province.

«As every year, the distribution of places was carried out keeping in mind the real needs of the educational institutions, resulting in a situation of redundancy in some schools – he declares Enzo Pastore, CISL school secretary – namely 45 nursery school teachers, 22 primary school teachers, 40 lower secondary school teachers and 72 upper secondary school teachers. The situation is worrying for future staff which, with the current parameters, will suffer significant cuts in positions, reducing the possibility of returning teaching staff to other provinces. At the same time, it will have a negative impact on new hires. All this could be mitigated with the possible expansion of school time, especially in full-time primary school and in lower secondary school, the extension of musical instrument teaching and in upper secondary schools the expansion of training offer for music high schools”.

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