Shattering PHOTO shows how teachers disappear from Hungarian schools

The Ottó Herman Secondary School in Miskolc took a photo that shows how young teachers disappear from the Hungarian school system. The idea of the image was simple: the tutors of the institution formed columns based on their age. The result was shocking.

Many Hungarian teachers have been protesting for better education, higher wages and the reduction of administrative burdens shoulder to shoulder with their students and their parents in Hungary. The government turned a blind eye to their demands insisting on their communication propaganda that Budapest can only raise wages in the education sector if the EU euro billions start flowing into the Hungarian economy. Meanwhile, Hungarian teachers’ unions want an immediate 45 percent pay rise.

Otherwise, they warn, more will leave the job, and Hungarian students will be unable to learn what they need in schools from professional tutors. It already happens in many schools that they cannot find a Physics or Chemistry teacher, so the PE and the Hungarian language teacher “substitute” unprofessionally.

Since most young people do not want to become a teacher, the ageing of the school teaching staff is apparent in most institutions. The Ottó Herman Secondary School in Miskolc depicted that problem in a spectacular image uploaded on Facebook by one of the teachers.