How to save teachers' lives by canceling winter and summer vacations?
Winter and summer vacations are the lifeblood of teachers. Whether it is the drastic reduction of holidays or the debate about the possible abolition of teachers' winter and summer vacation allowances, the legitimate rights and interests of teachers have been questioned and greatly misunderstood.
First of all, the state stipulates paid leave for winter and summer vacations, which is a legal right. Article 7 of Chapter II of the Teachers Law clearly stipulates:"Teachers are entitled to normal salaries, benefits, and vacations"。It can be said that"Paid time off"It is the legal rights granted to teachers by the Teachers Law, and it is the legal rights of teachers, which should be implemented and cannot be reduced for various reasons.
Data from a 2016 article published in the journal China Education titled "Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Overwork and Effective Workload Adjustment" showed that frontline teachers worked an average of more than 44 hours a week in school and more than 8 hours a day on weekday evenings and weekends, far exceeding the 40-hour weekly working time limit stipulated by labor regulations.
Of course, this does not mean that every teacher working on the front line is under much more pressure than those working outside, which is often unimaginable.
For other students, there is a lot of lesson preparation, lectures, homework correction, homework inspection, student counseling, safety education, make-up exams, error correction, statistics, analysis, exam analysis and summary, final summary and lesson plan after these two classes.
In addition, various meetings are held, such as class meetings, year-end summary meetings, lesson preparation group meetings, teacher associations, etc. Other learning, special lectures, distance education, etc.; Poverty alleviation visits, safe campuses, Putonghua promotion, education policy publicity, epidemic prevention and control, summer vacation river cruises...
Due to overwork, many teachers suffer from chronic pharyngitis, cervical spondylosis, neurasthenia, varicose veins of the lower limbs, stomach problems, etc. Over the years, reports of sudden deaths of teachers at work have continued to affect many families.
In such a high-intensity work, teachers rarely have a radiant face, but are exhausted. What's more, due to the peculiarities of their work, their physical condition is not the best, so although they seem to be in good spirits, they are actually terminally ill and in dire need of rest.
In short, the two public holidays every year are nothing more than a kind of physical and mental compensation for the long life of teachers in their daily work, which is also the voice of the majority of teachers.
But now, for various reasons, the reduction in vacation time is not as good as everyone thinks, there is nothing to envy, not to mention that the holiday pay of teachers, whose work intensity is beyond the imagination of the average person, has also been canceled.
Therefore, I would like to ask the relevant departments to carefully study their legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time pay attention to their collective difficulties, fully protect their right to rest, reduce their whims, and give them more humanistic care, so that they can spend their holidays without worries, let them have their own time, and enjoy the happiness they deserve.