Replacement of sick teachers goes awry

amersfoort - The replacement pools, from which schools draw as a teacher is sick, are virtually empty. Many children in recent weeks are therefore sent home forced.

'The combination of the flu outbreak and empty replacement pools allows schools to apply emergency measures,' says Liesbeth Jensen chairman of General Education.

Especially in large cities and in the west of the country there is the problem of the empty pools of replacement. 'Teachers in those pools now enroll in regular education because older people retire. We had already predicted this, but by raising the retirement age, the problems continued to get out. But now it happens really, 'Jensen explains. 'And at the pools is no new influx, because the number of teacher training students is decreasing for years. '