Teachers’ Day finds Moldovan teachers sweeping streets in European countries

The Teachers’ Day, marked on Thursday, October 5, is also celebrated in the European countries by street sweepers, housekeepers, day laborers, waste transporters, etc. persons who were previously teaching in Moldova. Tudor Mihalachi, former teacher in a Chisinau school, who is working for 5 years in Torino di Monte, Italy told Info-Prim Neo that hundreds of teachers from Moldova celebrate their profession day far away from their native place, family and students with a great sorrow for the future of Moldova. The former teacher says that they “were rived out from home by the impossibility to survive with a miserable wage, much lower than the one they receive for unqualified work in Italy”. Tudor Mihalachi says that, far away from home, together with his wife and sister he sees total misery not only in Moldovan education, but also in the entire country, the leadership of which does not invest in education and in the young generation. The present government is interested in maintaining people uninstructed, fooled by dogmas, totally ignoring the education process. At present, in Moldovan schools, children are taught by old teachers lacking possibility to go abroad, Mihalachi says. The former teacher insists that Moldova has a future only in the European Union Moldovans left for without waiting the implementation of the so-called pro-European declarations of the communist government. In this context, Tudor Mihalachi says that those who left the country are revolted of President Voronin’s arrogance in respect to the idea of a possible adhering to the EU together with Romania. “Voronin has no right to decide the destiny of the people, because today he is governing, but tomorrow may not. It is up to us to decide our own fates”, the teacher added. Tudor Mihalachi is one of the many Moldovans, who took his family abroad, in his case – his wife and sister. The number of Moldovans who reunite their families on foreign soil grows day by day, fact which, according to him, leaves Moldova not only without labor force but also without a future. Referring to the possibility of coming back to Moldova, the cited source declared that the majority of those who went abroad would come back immediately if things would turn better in the country, and their wages would allow them provide their families. “We don’t feel so great among foreigners – we feel second-hand persons, we hide our education certificates and sweep streets, carry bags with garbage, do any type of work, but at least we know that we can make our own home, that we have food for our children and that we can offer a future to them”, the former school teacher Tudor Mihalachi told Info-Prim Neo as a conclusion. Officials of the Ministry of Education and Youth told Info-Prim Neo that about 1700 persons left the education institutions.