Because it requires that someone assumes responsibility for the infamous deep lethargy which characterized ‘the only education system in the world to corrode up to 40% of a budget, I finally decided to say how, just like the Hydra of Lerna capable of several crimes at once, I plundered a wealth of knowledge and know-how acquired after several decades of painstaking efforts, undermined the chances of growth of GDP of an entire country by the exorbitant amount of my bill, and mortgaged the possibilities of emergence and perpetuation of human resources, ready to use services in both public and parastatal and private sectors.
It must certainly have the appearance of the Hydra – this ugly serpent heads multiple haunted the sleep of the aquatic realms – to in turn disturb the peace of potache Senegal, that of their parents or guardians, teachers and ministers of Education (sic!), short of a state that once referred to Africa’s schooling. Wear several hats at the same time requires much more than a head to ensure a minimum of comfort. I am the monster water bourreau the school of my own homeland, with the peculiarity that, unlike the demon in Greek mythology who was destroyed by Hercules, I’m trying to cut the very branch that prevents me from break the g. .. of m’autodétruire somehow because, precisely, each of my head is referred to potache, their parents and / or guardians, teachers, three Ministers of Education or to my everything: the Senegalese state. For once, I shall therefore begin with my all.
As a, I am responsible for perpetuating a tradition school and university in which the size and scientific quality are matched only by the limit of my means. I therefore decided to allocate 40% of my financial resources to the development of this sector, the mainstay of my own influence.
But the bank guarantee of 40% is curiously in the secure my foreign donors. After tough bargaining that I am the only one in Africa to have the secret, I can convince them to fund this thing I call budgétivore Ten-Year Program for Education and Training (PDEF), but not without their promise not place emphasis on quality than the death of that program.
I’m building and temporary shelters called forever in almost all ’settlements’ of my territory, including at least three concessions, and I send them volunteers despite the instruction to ensure the most sensitive layer of my people, with as the only training and in many cases, some knowledge of the IC to the third class. A note that calculation, I make more savings by hiring in this category of job seekers less demanding. Holders of Bac? Yes, but just a few samples, particularly since they are more useful to me in middle school they just left me and are cheaper than their ‘elders’ in the immediate hierarchy of bouffeurs chalk.
I have already mentioned the flowering of ‘new creations’, these schools are the pride of my youngest citizens throughout my territory, swell the annual reports on achievements and constraints and very heavy on my balance at the negotiations with my generous donors.
I admit that because of my status as a bad payer, I discredited most of my representatives in these new creations from their suppliers tired of chasing the valets to recover their dues. Obviously, this happens only when I took the trouble to equip these brave servants of printers, photocopiers or Risograph yet but … without ink cartridges, paper-free and without spare parts, please!
I admit all these shortcomings, but I immediately bought by the importance of annual rates of recent success stories and should be famous in my PDEF. What do you want? Everywhere around me, the numbers exploded, even among my peers who have made their first home. So I have not had any problems to ease the criteria for passing my exams when my national donors kindly asked me to review my copy. You say maybe my school produces students who pass each year by grade level with or without and that is reflected throughout their curriculum. I simply argue that the priority of my PDEF is not, once again, the quality, but rather ‘access’.
You certainly have heard one of my famous slogans that want that ‘and girls stay in school [which they will do.]‘ Now the question of quantum time. I have so commonplace, helped by the main actors, that his achievement does not seem more upset anyone. When the school is rocked by the movement of teachers and mood that I have not yet endorsed by the donors to my master, I adopt the tactics of the ostrich, minimizing the impact of these strikes cyclic when I can not simply pretend that everything is fine, that these strikes are not followed. And I let the listeners of interactive programs do the rest, they always manage to convince my people that teachers are just ‘taking children hostage’ and ‘compensation claim’ instead of addressing ‘raise the level lamentable of their learners. And to save time while waiting to find the funds to ease these bounty-hunters insatiable, I propose to express what each other necessarily reject.
I hope that you will not believe the conspiracy theory which would at the top of my spheres, some authorities deliberately sabotaging my education so that children who attend can not compete later their parties learn to lead in prestigious and expensive schools and Western universities. It is true that very often, many of these authorities are busy resolving the crisis at the school before the exams, only to ensure that they take place, and date due. But this is not a reason to stick their responsibility for such a serious situation.
As Minister of Education, I make about the same things that the other head of the Hydra just go to confession. I make sure first that valets me that act as intermediaries in my relationships with actors, are loyal to me. So, with that intelligence head of Hydra, we make sure that they lacked nothing, or almost:
vehicles, fuel, perdiums and other allowances of responsibility. Chalk, paint to give birth to yet another table, textbooks, paper and ink for reprography, working capital funds for nursing school cafeterias and other – where they exist – can wait. Fortunately, the most essential of these jacks are appointed and therefore aside the first insubordination.
Insubordination! The word is dropped! But in my understanding, it applies particularly to unionists, the ‘mercenary’, the ‘gravediggers of Education to the balance of political parties lurking in the shadows. “Fortunately, once again, which I also trade unionists my balance and movement of teachers to support my policy, all ready to break the watchwords inappropriate laid to strike by unions’ unrepresentative ‘.
When I have no alternative but to open negotiations with these people, I simply sign – bad faith – agreements on claims that I do not deny me to judge quite legitimate. And after? Royal Guard I respect my commitments. At least not before the supreme authority of the country receives the messiah claimants in the last minute and not m’intime order to proceed to the implementation of agreements signed. In the meantime, I created a situation that would allow more strikers to engage in their favorite sport before the start of examinations. In the meantime, so I especially do not let me delight featured on television and other waves of the FM band. That’s all you can blame me.
As a teacher-unionist, but as Sénégalais good complexion, I understood that in this country, you have to be flexible tongue and the verb altogether piquant to access some areas of hope and better tomorrow for themselves and his family and relatives, if you see what I mean. There is no question that I yield my chair as Secretary General to anyone, especially not in my immediate following. If my fellow union are quite irrelevant for me to land during a conference that I tried very hard to avoid, I ring the mutiny, and with a handful of dissidents, I create a parallel union acronym which j ‘adds’ Fc [Forces corruptible?]‘, ‘true’, ‘Original’, or – why not? – ‘Available’. History to show any government negotiators that I do not lace.
And since I have commitments’ professional ‘other than those with the state – it must be that I fill the slack periods of the month – j’impose systematically strike guardianship default as a ringtone, to compel it to stall phone when I am starting to make me forget. I can go about my business as long as we find common ground. I also carefully guard during drying when my rivals are in the same mood as me, just to express my difference and give an idea of my weight organize.
As a father, I have not much to reproach me, except that I left morons the only representation that gives me the right chapter in the schools my children attend – the Ape (Associations parents) – to the point where it does more than merely hound school heads so they do not hit a terrace or a ‘Niarela’ revenue with inscriptions. I am now so well immunized against the syndrome strikes ring that I lost count of the days that my offspring happening at home – lack of teachers, or rather over – but the days of real learning, but only to perform the calculation of benefits that they generate strikes in the transportation of kids.
And when one of them wins the Tray or BFEM, although he had indeed made that three-month course, I can find absolutely nothing wrong, unless it was that he had ‘lucky’. It is true he would not speak french in my back, and when he receives his’ comrades’ private schools, who attended the course so that Molière the march on the language.
Finally, as a student-student, my only fate is perhaps enlist left me, child, and adult leaders in principle, in an education system operated, in principle, and again by other responsible adults, and which eventually produce some graduates like me who are proud of their scrolls. I have come in years of control, escape my cadet Terminale ahead, without realizing it, hurt my pride teaching potential of embarrassing questions and a series of exercises four years [in least] between us are no longer enough to solve.
That is when I can plant these reflections shortcomings of my course that I want to see my gnawing former teachers as I cursed for never observed any day of the strike. Not for me repentance. For m’imprégner instead. I remember that in school, our leaders more willing to enact watchwords unlimited strike was precisely those who had fewer professors strikers. Unfortunate coincidence? Oh not, the whole world knows that our schools lack everything except condiments a platform of demands: they are found locally and on the leaves, starting, generating gender and number.
You know everything about me now. On him, on the other, them and us. So, you be the judge!
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