Alternates have yet to be appointed before Christmas. Why?



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A few days before Christmas break, schools are without substitutes in several cases. Here are the main reasons.

In a few days the Christmas holidays will begin but still many schools do not have all the teachers in place: thousands of chairs have been discovered due to delays in the appointment of substitutes. Especially in the north.

An example above all? Until a few days ago, Florence still lacked “100 teachers for infancy (of which 83 for support), 111 for primary school (of which 70 for support), 86 for secondary school (of which 28 for support. ) and 151 for high school (of which 25 support) “.

The reasons for the delay

Let me be clear: this is not the first school year with precarious jobs that still need to be placed in schools at Christmas. But it is undeniable that in the year of the covid there are no indifferent peculiarities that have led to this.

It is undeniable, in the first place, that thecovid emergency it has discouraged many candidates – many have refused to move for fear of contracting the virus. And this has severely limited the large flow of alternates each year from South to North, where chairs are traditionally open.

Not secondary, as motivation, preparation for extraordinary competition, which has involved teachers in recent months: a competition that has not yet ended due to the pandemic and that will surely see its end in 2021.

The rest is attributable, according to many managers and unions, to Gps mechanismIf, on the one hand, the procedures for assigning substitutes had been streamlined, on the other hand there have been many problems and delays that have strongly affected some areas in particular. All of these setbacks also contributed to an empty chair situation at the end of the year.

After recruitment failure, there are still empty chairs

However, the substitutes became the last lifeline at the beginning of the school year, when it was already understood that the entries in the role had been a failure. An indicative data in this sense is provided by the USR Lombardia: up 6143 places of support for to be covered indefinitely, they have only been covered 43. And if we consider that alternate appointments are not yet completed …

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