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“If a teacher and an assistant worked full time, we would pay 70 euros a month, if a teacher worked half a day and an assistant only helped her in the second half of the day, we would pay 40 euros,” the woman told LNK News.
In the first option, a fee of almost 1,500 euros collected from 21 single-parent families would be allocated not only for the assistant’s salary, but also for the teacher assignment maintained with municipal funds.
“They put it this way: If a teacher and an assistant work full time, then parents pay the teachers for the second half of the day and the assistant for the first half of the first day.” In my opinion, the goal is to increase your salary in this way. “
Rimantas Remeika, the director of the progymnasium, who has been enthusiastically communicating with journalists until now, and heard that he wanted to talk about the fees for hiring a teacher, only agreed to speak on the phone after lengthy persuasions.
He explained that the parents had hired an additional teacher themselves.
“I don’t really do any hiring because the school is not involved in this place. It’s just that the school creates the conditions for parents to want to do this, ”he said.
A parent spokeswoman said hiring an additional teacher was not the parents’ idea, but the school’s.
“We parents were invited back in the summer and the teacher met us, we met her, and in the summer she announced that the first graders would have the opportunity to hire an assistant, a teacher assistant.”
Parents were encouraged to pay the fee even when 80 percent had not been charged to hire a teacher. parent votes. It is necessary to collect it in accordance with the resolution of the Vilnius Council.
“A few days later, the message came that the school administration, with the teacher’s consent, allowed the hiring of an assistant.”
According to the woman, the fees for hiring teachers violate the constitutional right to free education.
“The Constitution, the Education Law, the Law of Fundamentals of Children’s Rights guarantee us free education in state and municipal institutions. If someone wants to pay or get additional services, they can always go to private schools and study there. “
Vilnius Municipality said it had allowed two schools in the capital to hire teacher assistants in exchange for parents’ money, but according to Deputy Mayor Vytautas Mitalas, hiring him is prohibited if, as in the case of the Duke Gediminas Progymnasium, 80 percent is not collected. parental votes.
“This means that there is a breach of the procedure approved by the city council, in which case the case of the school or class in question is investigated,” he said.
For the representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (ŠMSM), it was news at all that the toll for the hiring of teachers also exists for municipalities that have not yet been legalized.
Consequently, the municipality has established such an order, because it tried to “push” this idea, we blocked this attempt at a Gediminas school with the head of government. So the municipality had raised the issue, “explained the representative of the Ministry Aidas Aldauskas.
According to a representative of the ministry, ŠMSM has received several complaints from parents regarding tolls in previous years.
“It is strange to hear that there are still cases of this type in Lithuania. Raising money from parents by hiring a second teacher, or a teacher assistant, or whatever they call themselves, has never been endorsed or recommended by the ministry. , nor is it legal. “
Until the municipality financed the so-called extracurricular activities, the parents paid out of pocket and, as the mother interviewed said, they did not receive checks. According to the gym director, how the money is accounted for now is not a matter for the school.
“There are relationships between individuals, the school in this case does not earn anything, only the rent, if the premises are rented,” he said.
But the municipality says parents must officially pay the money to the school coffers. According to V. Mitalas, for that additional teaching assistant who appears in the primary classes with the teacher, the accounting must be done and is done through centralized accounting.
According to the NMSM, such payments are not at all illegal, but the ministry does not control them.
“The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports is not the institution whose competence is to get people out with their hands,” said A. Aldauskas.
According to the school principal, those who do not want to pay the fee are not obliged to do so. He said he didn’t understand why parents have to pay if they don’t want to.
According to the municipality, the teacher hired by the parents of the parents who did not pay the assistant must teach in the same way as those who paid.
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