The Foundation For The Defense Of Citizens Against State Abuses (FACIAS) points out a number of serious problems in the Romanian education system, which the Ministry of Education cannot solve and which make education the worst crisis of the last thirty years. At this rate we are certainly heading for a catastrophe.
The opening of the school year has shown us the scale of the disaster and the fact that the current minister is completely out of his depth.
The failure to respect the right to education, a right recognised by the Constitution, is an unacceptable abuse and FACIAS calls for the immediate resignation of Minister Monica Anisie.
A new reason for this, the fourth in the "Decalogue of Disasters in Education", is the fact that, although many schools in the country are forced to take courses online, a good proportion of teachers lack digital skills and cannot cope with the demands of teaching in the particular context brought about by the coronavirus epidemic.
According to a survey commissioned by Epson at the end of last year, a third of urban teachers do not know how to use the technology provided by schools.
The same study shows that teachers use smart technology at school extremely rarely, with more than half of them using it only once a week, while only a quarter would use these devices daily.
Even if we were to believe Minister Monica Anisie's claim that more than 96,000 teachers have acquired digital skills in the last period, this means that, to date, less than half of the total number of teachers, which exceeds 200,000, have been trained for online teaching.