Exams ‘will go ahead’ as teachers get civil mobilisation papers

His comments came as the government started handing out civil mobilisation papers to about 85,000 teachers, in force as of Wednesday, May 15.

The threat to strike “threatens the most sensitive segment of society, the 100,000 students that are sitting for their first and most important exams of their lives,” Kedikoglou told private radio Vima

station. “Who are these teachers, who, at the most critical educational moment choose to see how much more they can gain?” he added.

“The examinations will be carried out normally and on time. We did whatever we could and we hope the tension de-escalates so we can sit down and see the real issues in education: Are we proud of the quality of education we are offering our children? Of the language they speak? The history they know? I think the Greek we were learning in our generation in school were better than what children are being taught today,” he added.

The high school teachers’ main union (OLME), meanwhile, are planning to resort to the Council of State, requesting that the order for civil mobilisation the government has ordered as of Monday (yesterday). They are also calling on the umbrella unions of ADEDY (civil servants) and GSEE (private sector) to call a strike for the first scheduled day of examinations, on Friday, May 17, to protest “the government’s authoritarianism and transgression of the constitutionally-guaranteed right to strike.’

OLME has planned a protest rally for 7:00 p.m. on Monday outside the federation’s offices in central Athens.

Source: AMNA