A. Skertsos: The reactions to the Greek PISA are supposedly progressive

The attitude of teachers, trade union leaders and SYRIZA towards the “Greek PISA” towards the “Greek PISA” is incomprehensible, the Minister of State, Akis Skertsos, in his statement about the anonymous diagnostic examinations that he emphasizes will allow to measure the quality and effectiveness of education. .

Mr. Skertsos points out that Greece is one of the few European countries that have not applied this methodology of education evaluation to date, emphasizing that with this information we will be able to make corrective interventions both in terms of teaching methodology and in the Curricula. .

According to him, both students and teachers of the public school will benefit from this process, while concluding the Minister of State claims that the Greek PISA is finally the reason for another fig leaf of a hollow of so-called “progressivism” to fall. , which has nothing to do with upgrading critical public goods either.

The statement of Akis Skertsos in detail:

“Who is ultimately in favor of a good public school and who is undermining it?

Quality public and free education is the most important belt of social and economic growth for all and especially for our weakest fellow citizens. Without it, inequalities are consolidated and widened in favor of the few strong and their children.

That is why the resistance of both the educational trade union leaders – who announced a special strike – and SYRIZA against the “Greek PISA” which is implemented for the first time in our country from the day after Wednesday, 18/5, is politically incomprehensible.

What will happen on Wednesday? 6,000 students from 600 schools across the country, 300 Primary and 300 High Schools, will participate for the first time in our educational history in anonymous diagnostic examinations with one and only goal: to evaluate the basic knowledge acquired by students in Primary and Secondary School in two basic courses, language and mathematics, in each region of Greece.

This evaluation will allow us to measure the quality and effectiveness of the public education provided to our children, both interregionally and nationally compared to other countries conducting similar evaluations. Greece, it should be noted, is one of the few European countries that have not applied to date this methodology of evaluation of education.

With the results of the Greek PISA we will learn what the students have achieved, what they have understood well from the textbooks and what is what makes it difficult for them and how much. With this information we will be able to make corrective interventions both in matters of teaching methodology and in the Curricula.

In the end, both the students and the teachers of the public school will benefit from this process, and those who selfishly exploit its gaps and shortcomings, that is, those who attend the so-called “para-education”, will lose.

The Greek PISA is finally the occasion to drop another fig leaf of a hollow of so-called “progressivism”, which has nothing to do with upgrading critical public goods, such as education and health, nor with knowledge and social mobility. of working-class and middle-class children.

Well done to Niki Kerameos who filed a lawsuit against the ILO and OLME asking for the declared strike to be recognized as illegal and abusive – abstention from Wednesday’s exams. We work hard for a good public school and for families who trust it.