As teachers’ strike continues in Lebanon, there is a growing fear that official exams will be postponed. The Ministry of Education has not yet officially delayed the test dates, but the minister warned earlier that a postponement will “definitely take place.”
Public school teachers are demanding a pay raise but the cabinet is refusing because of disagreements over how the state will fund the increase. Some private school teachers are also striking for better wages.
Teachers in Lebanon are deprived from having their rights fully. The wages they get, compared to doctors and engineers for example, are too low as it all goes toward necessities and not luxury. For this reason, I call on all the workers especially teachers as well as their families and other associations to heavily participate in the demonstrations and protests and to always strike for their rights so that they can afford the living costs.
Like many other countries around the world, teachers in Lebanon should have their full rights. How come other employee get higher salaries than the teachers and the teachers are the ones who lead them to their jobs and positions. Without teachers there is no doctors, engineers, and others. So teachers are the base and the pillar of support to all others and they have to continue till the end in what they are doing to get what they want.
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