The Minister of Education announces the decision to impose a radical measure in all schools that will produce a strong shock wave among teachers and students from all over Romania, and this is because he wants to forbid by law teachers to give meditation to students from classes to who teach
The Minister of Education also announces that he wants to compel teachers by law to submit all possible diligence so that the need for meditation no longer exists for the students of the classes they teach, and all these measures could come into force by the fall of this year, before the beginning or.
"In general, I think it's a common sense thing. On the other hand, meditations are practiced in any other European state, you cannot forbid a parent who wants additional training for his own child to do so. Additional training is in the interest of education, so it is something accepted in any state of this world.
On the other hand, we want to have the relevance of grades, and we want to have the respect of ethical conditions in the education system. The relevance of grades suffers when a teacher meditates with students from his own class, whom he then grades. On the other hand, in order to ensure the objectivity of teaching and evaluation, the teaching staff is forbidden, by this proposed law, to have meditations with the students in the class.
He also has the obligation and diligence in order to eliminate the need for additional training in the general mode, and this in order to achieve the competence profile of the graduates in the cycle in which he teaches. There are two aspects, the relevance of grades and compliance with ethical conditions, both aspects fall under a principle that I call common sense.
Educated Romania aims to transpose the objectives into a legislative package. It must be able to be applied starting with September 2023, at the level of framework plans, curriculum, and all kinds of other things of maximum interest for the young generations. In order to apply in September 2023, we need preparation for the subsequent legislation.
The legislative package should enter into force this year, and the provision with the ban on meditating with one's own students from the class, I am convinced that it can enter from the 2022-2023 school year, very quickly. We will specify in the law that teachers must submit due diligence to eliminate the need for additional training."
