Yana da wahala ka zama shugaban kowace kungiya, amma wadanda malamai suka zaba suna kan layin kora.
Masu gyara harkar ilimi masu goyon bayan kamfanoni, da abokansu na siyasa suna son raunana muryar gama-garin malaman makarantun gwamnati. An kai hari kan haƙƙoƙin sasantawa na ƙungiyar malamai ko kariyar kwangila a duk faɗin ƙasar. Kungiyoyin ƙwadago biyu da abin ya shafa kai tsaye—Ƙungiyar Ilimi ta Ƙasa (NEA) da Ƙungiyar Malamai ta Amurka (AFT)—sun yi ƙoƙari amma sun kasa gamsar da abokan gabansu na siyasa, suna barin da yawa daga cikin membobinsu suna tambayar ingancin shawarwari da wakilci na ƙungiyar.
Wannan damuwa da ke kara ruruwa yanzu tana kara rura wutar fafutukar sake fasalin kungiyar a tsakanin kungiyoyin malamai na jihohi da na kananan hukumomi. A wasu manyan rassan jam'iyyar AFT da kuma na Massachusetts reshen NEA mai mambobi 110,000, 'yan takara masu matsayi da matsayi a baya-bayan nan sun kayar da jami'an da ke kan karagar mulki ko kuma kawai sun sha kaye a zabukan da suka fafata na kujerun shugabannin kananan hukumomi.
A sakamakon wannan dabi'a, hukumomin makarantu da masu unguwanni turawa makarantun boko, daidaitattun manhajoji da jarrabawa, ko tantance malamai da albashi bisa sakamakon jarabawar nan ba da jimawa ba za su fuskanci adawa mai tsanani ga shirinsu. Sabbin nau'ikan masu fafutuka a yanzu da aka zaba sun gane cewa rayuwa da nasara na ƙungiyar sun dogara da kasancewa masu fafutuka, dimokuradiyya, da kuma cuɗanya da al'umma.
A zaben watan Mayu ya baci, Barbara Madeloni, wacce ta shirya zanga-zangar malaman makaranta a baya, don nuna adawa da daidaiton gwaji a jihar Bay, ta zama shugabar kungiyar malamai ta Massachusetts (MTA). A yayin da yake gudu a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar da ake kira Educators for a Democratic Union, Madeloni da kyar ya doke mataimakin shugaban MTA Tim Sullivan, wanda aka taɓa ɗauka a matsayin wanda zai zama babban aiki. Madeloni da tambarin sake fasalinta sun yi kamfen ne na adawa da rangwame da aka samu kan haƙƙin ɗan adam da aka yi shekaru biyu da suka gabata daga masu fafutuka na ƙungiyar a cikin tarurrukan da ‘yan majalisar dokokin jihar Demokraɗiyya da Stand For Children, ƙungiyar “gyara ilimi” ke samun goyon bayan kasuwanci.
"Wannan shi ne abin da muke samu," in ji Madeloni ga wakilai 1,500 na MTA a watan da ya gabata, "lokacin da muke tunanin cewa mulki yana cikin hanyar kai tsaye ga jiga-jigan siyasa - yin magana da su maimakon tattara membobinmu. Lokacin da Stand For Children ya dawo don faɗa na gaba ko kuma abokan siyasa sun zo bayan fanshonmu, muna so mu sake yanke yarjejeniyar cikin gida kuma mu bayyana, 'zai iya zama mafi muni?'
Model na Chicago
Samfurin farfado da ƙungiyar da masu gyara MTA ke jagoranta yana nunawa a Chicago tun 2010. Wannan shine lokacin da CORE — Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, ƙungiyar da ta yi wahayi zuwa ga Madeloni's — ta ɗauki jagorancin ƙungiyar 26,000 memba Chicago Teachers Union ( CTU). Bayan zaben sabon shugaban kasa Karen Lewis, Ba’amurke Ba’amurke da ta kammala karatun digiri a Dartmouth, CTU ta fara karfafa tsarinta na cikin gida don shirya fafatawar da magajin garin Rahm Emanuel mai taurin kai shekaru biyu da suka gabata.
Masu fafutuka na CTU sun yi ta kai-kawo ga iyayen makarantun gwamnati da kuma al'ummomin masu karamin karfi don kawar da ra'ayin kyamar malamai, kamar yadda Majami'ar Birni ta yi. Ƙungiyar ta sanya kanta a matsayin jagoran Chicago mai kare ingantacciyar ilimin jama'a, ƙananan aji, da makarantun unguwanni suna barazanar rufewa. A yayin da aka dakatar da aiki na kwanaki 9, yawancin mazauna birnin sun mayar da martani ta hanyar mara wa malaman da ke yajin aiki, wanda hakan ya sa Emanuel ke da wuya ya shafe su da kuma ware su kamar yadda aka tsara. Ko da yake ana ci gaba da rufe makarantu da sallamar malamai a birnin Chicago, juriya na ƙungiyar ga bayar da tallafi-da yaƙin neman zaɓen kwangilar bangarori da dama—ya yi tasiri a tsakanin malamai da ke ko'ina.
Tun daga wannan yajin aikin na 2012, masu ra'ayi iri ɗaya sun bi tsarin wasanin malamai na Chicago a tattaunawar kwantiragin birnin Portland, Oregon da St. Paul, Minnesota. A cikin Maris, masu kalubalantar matsayi da fayil sun share duk manyan mukamai a cikin United Teachers na Los Angeles, haɗin gwiwa na AFT da NEA har ma da girma fiye da CTU. Sun yi yakin neman zabe a matsayin wani bangare na “Kungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararru. A zabukan da aka yi a watan da ya gabata, ’yan adawar da ke kira da a kara shiga cikin mambobi a kungiyar ilimi ta Seattle sun kwace rabin kujerun zartarwarta kuma sun kusan lashe zaben shugaban kasa. Kungiyar masu tayar da kayar baya a can, Social Equality Educators, ta kasance karkashin jagorancin wani fitaccen mai adawa da jarabawa, malamin makarantar sakandare Jesse Hagopian.
Sakamakon kuri'un da yawan fitowar jama'a a Seattle sun nuna "goyon baya sosai ga dabarun SEE don kare aikin koyarwa da kuma gwagwarmaya don samun cikakken kudade da makarantun gwamnati," in ji Lee Sustar, marubucin sabon littafi kan ƙungiyar malamai da ake kira. Yajin dawowa a Chicago (Haymarket, 2014) "Masu fafutuka na SEE ne suka taimaka farawa tare da jagoranci nasarar kauracewa yakin gwajin MAP na 2013, wanda, tare da haɗin gwiwa, tare da iyaye da abokan hulɗar al'umma, sun ba da haɓaka ga gwagwarmayar gwaji a kusa da Amurka"
A cewar Sustar, "bayan shekaru ashirin na sake fasalin makarantu na kamfanoni, masu zaman kansu, lalata malamai da kuma jarabawar ɗalibai, yanzu akwai wani sabon zaɓi ga dabarun haɗin gwiwar AFT da NEA ta kowane farashi." Daga cikin wadanda ke taimaka wa wannan hanyar sadarwa ta masu gyara kungiyar malamai akwai Labour Notes, wacce ta buga nata jagorar kwanan nan don babban matsayi da fayil mai suna. Yadda ake Tsalle Fara Ƙungiyarku.
Ba Ƙungiya ta Tallafi ba
A wasu biranen kamar New York, inda aka amince da sabuwar kwangilar ƙungiyar, masu rike da madafun iko sun kasance masu iko a yanzu. Amma fafutuka a kan aiki yana yaduwa. A ranar Mayu a Brooklyn, alal misali, ’yan makarantar sakandare 30 sun ba da sanarwar ƙin gudanar da jarrabawar tantance aikin a bainar jama’a a “fasahar harshen Turanci” saboda yana da illa ga ɗaliban da ke yabon, a makarantarsu, daga ƙasashe XNUMX daban-daban. Iyayen fiye da rabin daliban su ma sun fice daga jarabawar, saboda irin wannan damuwa. Wasu daga cikin wadanda suka fara wannan kauracewa na cikin kungiyar Malamai masu daraja ta daya, mai sukar shugabancin kungiyar.
Kamar yadda 'yar jarida Sarah Jaffe ta ruwaito, Ƙungiyar Malamai ta United (UFT) ta nuna juyayi ga "waɗanda al'adun gwaji suka shafa da suka mai da hankali sosai kan shirye-shiryen gwaji da kuma kaɗan kan dabarun da za su kai ga ilmantarwa ɗalibai." A lokaci guda, duk da haka, jami'an UFT sun nisanta kansu daga zanga-zangar saboda "ba wani taron ne da kungiyar ta dauki nauyi ba."
Irin wannan amsa mai daɗi ba ta yanke shi tare da malamai waɗanda suka ƙi aikin da aka ba su a matsayin “masu fasaha na gwaji” a tseren makarantun gwamnati zuwa ƙasa. Ta hanyar danganta matsalolin wuraren aiki da abin da ya haifar da ingantaccen ilimin jama'a, sabuwar ƙungiyar malamai masu adawa da juna suna ƙoƙari su juya baya ta hanyar mayar da nasu ƙungiyoyin. Idan waɗanda ke kan gaba, a cikin gida ko na ƙasa, ba su sami saƙon ba, za su iya samun nasu lokacin cikin haɗari.
Steve Early ya kasance wakilin ƙungiyar na dogon lokaci a New England kuma marubucin, kwanan nan, na Ajiye Ƙungiyoyin Mu: Watsawa daga Ƙungiya a cikin Matsi. Ana iya samun sa a [email kariya].
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