The basic education school year began this Monday marked by recurring problems in the Portuguese education system, with a lack of teachers and thousands of students still without a confirmed place. The start of classes exposes weaknesses that were already known and persist from year to year.
According to José Feliciano Costa, secretary-general of Fenprof, more than 100 thousand students begin the year without at least one assigned teacher. Among these are four thousand primary school children who still do not have a confirmed teacher for their classes.
Although approximately 20 thousand teacher placements have been made, many positions remain unfilled in several schools. This situation worsens the shortage of teaching staff and compromises the normal functioning of classes from the very first day of the school year.
