(5 Oct 2022)
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Budapest - 5 October 2022
1. Wide of demonstrators shouting
UPSOUND (Hungarian): "There's no future without teachers!"
2. Pan of protesters shouting while walking on the Margit bridge over the river Danube
UPSOUND (Hungarian): "There's no future without teachers!"
3. Mid of students shouting
UPSOUND (Hungarian): "There's no future without teachers!"
4. Pan of crowd on the Margit bridge of the river Danube
5. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Brigitta Herbej, demonstrating student:
"We must stand up for our teachers, because the situation in our country is untenable. This cannot continue like this. I believe that there will be change if we move and stand up for ourselves."
6. Pan of protesters shouting while walking on the bridge
UPSOUND (Hungarian): "There's no future without teachers!"
7. Mid of shouting students
8. Wide of the protest
9. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Mihaly Goher, demonstrating parent:
"The problem with Hungarian education today is that no one has addressed the issues for decades. It is in the same state as it was 60 or even 100 years ago. And it needs a very serious reform, but nobody is bothered about it."
10. Various of protest
UPSOUND (Hungarian): "There's no future without teachers!"
11. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Mihaly Goher, demonstrating parent:
"This is a moment when we can stand up for the future of our children by standing in solidarity with teachers. We fear for the future of our children, we fear for the future of our teachers."
14. Wide of demonstrators
15. Mid of students shouting
UPSOUND (Hungarian): "We won't give up, we won't give up!"
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Hungarian students, teachers and their supporters blocked the traffic on one of Budapest's bridges over the river Danube on Wednesday.
They were protesting against low wages, increasingly heavy curricular demands on students, poor conditions in schools and the lack of freedom of lesson planning.
The process of centralisation in Hungary's education system means the curriculum, textbooks and decision making are all controlled by a central body formed in 2012 by Hungary's nationalist government.
Public school teachers have for years complained of low wages and high workloads that have served to dissuade potential new teachers from entering the profession, creating a major shortage of educators, and growing discontent.
The pay basis for teachers in Hungary hasn't changed since 2014, resulting in net wages for newly-qualified teachers, and many experienced ones alike, starting at 207,000 forints ($500) per month.
Following a series of unsuccessful talks with the government on increasing wages and reducing hours, unions have called on teachers to make a series of strikes and work stoppages.
Since Hungary's government tightened strike laws in May, limiting the conditions under which teachers can strike legally, the union is also encouraging educators to consider acts of civil disobedience, and has demanded the restoration of the right to strike.
During the past weeks many teachers have joined the civil disobedience action.
Last Friday at least five teachers of the Budapest's prestigious Ferenc Kolcsey High School were fired with immediate effect as a result of their civil disobedience act.
Demonstrators also protesting against the sometimes-substandard state of school buildings.
Under the government's decision, public schools and high schools can be heated to only 18 degrees Celsius (Fahrenheit 64.4) this winter, while primary schools can be heated over 20 degrees Celsius (Fahrenheit 68).
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