More than 17 thousand teachers are missing!

Cuba’s current crisis is hitting many sectors of society, and public education is one of them. Emigration and migration to better paying fields has led to the sad figure that today there is a shortage of more than 17 thousand teachers across the island.

Undoubtedly, one of the areas most affected by the difficult situation that Cuba is going through is education, which used to be the pride of the system, but now there is a shortage of more than 17 thousand teachers, according to the ruling party itself. Information.

This week, Cuban TV reporter Lázaro Manuel Alonso pointed out in his profile Facebook Their concern about this reality. As is often the case, they described the situation as “extremely complex” but with no solutions in sight.

“The system has a shortage of more than 17 thousand teachers, of which 3,200 are in basic secondary school. In many schools, the first classes of subjects without teachers are not taught or are taught only half-heartedly,” wrote a Cuban television journalist.

Teacher shortage in Cuba by 2023

According to the report, among the reasons for the shortage of educators are “the search for higher or better wages, emigration, and the movement of professionals to other fields within the country where better salaries are paid.”

General Director of Basic Education, Marlon Triana Mederos, confirmed this earlier information from Alonso to national television news. For example, around 7,000 teachers disappeared from education in August, ahead of the agreed date for the start of the school year on the island.

Triana pointed out that Cuba will be without at least 3,200 teachers in basic secondary education approximately two months into the 2023-2024 academic year, so coverage is only 88.9%.

The problem is particularly acute in the provinces of Havana, Mayabeque, Artemisa, Matanzas and Sancti Spiritus, which are “one of the pillars of Cuban society suffering from a troubled economy,” the official said in a televised statement. conditions the country is experiencing.”