Hungary Braces for Teacher Exodus After 'Vengeance' Law Approved

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Source: Bloomberg

Hungary Braces for Teacher Exodus After ‘Vengeance’ Law Approved

Zoltan Simon
Tue, July 4, 2023 at 5:31 AM EDT·2 min read

(Bloomberg) -- Hungary braced for a wave of teacher resignations after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s legislators approved a new law that educators see as a crackdown following years of anti-government protests.

The parliament in Budapest, where members of Orban’s party hold a two-thirds majority, approved the so-called status law — stripping teachers of protections granted to public employees, raising the number of weekly hours of required teaching and limiting educators’ autonomy. It also allows the government to relocate teachers.

Dubbed the “vengeance law” by its critics, the legislation steps up pressure on teachers and threatens to push staffing in the education sector to critical levels. More than 5,000 teachers have pledged to quit if the new regulations come into effect, according to a tally on website aHang.

“The law is all about trying to paper over the shortage of teachers,” said Bence Toth, a biology and chemistry teacher at a primary school in Budapest who joined a protest in a steady drizzle outside the parliament building in Budapest. “It’s also about retribution for our strikes.”

Orban has moved to rein in schools as part of his more than decade-old power consolidation, which has seen him extend his sway over the media, courts, culture, education and large swaths of the economy.

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[DBoon]

1. Soon to be adopted in Florida...

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Exactly! Thugs think that they can muzzle our First Amendment Rights.

[Darwins_Retriever]

3. They've done it so far

Fascists have been taking over school boards for decades. And they will continue.

About 6 years ago I taught in Florida. Florida at that time required 1 week of sex ed. The problem was that my school went of the reservation and got a course from an evangelical xian group. They ended up returning the materials and took edited materials instead. No more Sin and Hell. But still sex before marriage is bad and other good stuff like birth control can cause problems with the girl and/or baby.

That was about 6 years ago, it most likely has drifted back to original evangelical.