AKEL and the Minister of Education's ping-pong announcements on the issue of staffing the Music Schools. After the statement by Minister Prodromos Prodromou, who spoke of populism and misinformation about the dismissal of teachers, the left-wing party took its turn to speak of an attempt at disorientation on the part of the Minister, asking him four questions.
In its statement, the opposition party says that instead of responding to AKEL's well-founded position on unprovoked and arbitrary dismissals of music school teachers, the Education Minister, engages in his favourite sport of disorientation and diatribe, once again targeting AKEL.
He even adds by saying, "We will not follow the Minister on another downhill slide".
AKEL, he adds, again asks the following questions:
- Why were the teaching hours of the choral conducting course reduced from two to one per week?
- Why were the choral and traditional music courses removed from the call for reappointment to music schools, with the result that the vast majority of teachers of these courses are unable to reapply for appointment?
- How is it possible for the Minister to cite the excellent results of the Music Schools and at the same time to dismiss teachers who achieved these results?
- Has the competent Ministry received a letter from the PEO and SAC guilds expressing their sadness at the unknowing dismissals? Are they populists too?
"A government that refuses to implement even Court decisions condemning as illegal and arbitrary the employment of thousands of workers under the purchase of services scheme cannot rely on the permanent status of workers to justify the arbitrary and unjustified dismissal of music school teachers," the statement concludes.
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