Sunday, September 15, 2013

Teachers, the nomads of the system - the Minute News

Lucia will do 260 kilometers daily to teach and spend more than half the salary in travel, but there are those who choose to move house and “take the family back to” as a primary teacher placed in Lisbon.

Lucia Lopes, 35, and Mafalda Beltran, 38, are two examples of what happens to thousands of teachers. In late August got to know where they had been placed, and in a few days, had to be presented at the new school, hundreds of miles from home. Teachers for over a decade, are “nomadic system.”

not known, but were close to each other and away from their families: Lucy made a trip of 130 kilometers, the Marinha Grande to the new school in Santo António dos Cavaleiros, while Mafalda Viseu left towards the center of Lisbon.

For a week, Lucia and Mafalda made bills for life to decide the future of the family during the next four years.

130 miles from home and the daughter of seven months, Lucia spent several nights to reckon with her husband until they decided they would sleep at home every day and make the trip.

“With a little daughter of seven months, I now have to do the journey every day. St. 130 kilometers (kms) each trip which gives 260 miles per day. At the end of the month will be 5,200 miles. going to be very expensive” , told Lusa Lucia Lopes, who estimates spending 760 euros per month just on gas and tolls on a journey that you will steal three hours a day.

Teacher Education Visual and Technological Education still has hopes of exchange with a teacher with 22 teaching hours allocated has been placed closer to his home in Marinha Grande, or even in the area of ??Leiria, Caldas Rainha and Pombal .

“Otherwise, I will have to endure in the hope that next year there is a contest mobility”, the teacher said that from Monday, will have to get up at five in the morning to be at school at eight.

“Lisbon became my prison,” he declared.

Also Mafalda Beltran reckoneth to life when he learned that he had been a primary school in the center of Lisbon. Despite having bought a house in Viseu, family Beltran ultimately decided it would be better moving to Lisbon. But the fact that they have only known the new school in late August made that have not yet had time to deal with everything.

This week-end will be passed between crates at his home in Viseu, since Mafalda still failed to Lisbon bring everything you need. Despite being enrolled in Viseu, the two children have managed to transfer schools weekenders but the elder has no books.

“We’re still in changes. Just got home last week, because these placements come too late,” lamented Mafalda, who despite the confusion that settled, keeps the spirit of those who are already accustomed to these wanderings. Mafalda has lectured on the islands of Madeira, Azores and the Geres.

“It takes dedication, organization and commitment to come to teach,” stressed Professor of Marinha Grande.

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