‘The government has decided to jeopardize our official education,’ says Martin Casier (PS)

For the PS MP, the question is not whether to make savings, but where to make them. “For more than ten years, we have decided to protect the school. It was felt that there were too many issues surrounding education for it to pay the price of the budgetary efforts to be made. This is the consequence of this that we see today.“

We must therefore take measures but, for Martin Casier, politics is also about choosing. “Today, long-term illnesses in education cost the Wallonia-Brussels Federation more than 100 million euros per year. It is therefore a teacher expense that we do not have and which must be replaced. Some of these teachers are able – it is the unions who even want it – to do other tasks. If we organized a career reorientation, support for these long-term patients, we could save tens of millions of euros in the budget of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. This is a measure that would be positive for the budget and positive for workers.“

“It is therefore a matter of to choose. And that’s precisely it which we criticize today: cThose are the choices. The government decided to decentralize our teaching, to endanger our official teaching, higher education. That’s what’s wrong.“