The Yemeni teachers’ syndicate has called on all education workers in Houthi militia-controlled areas to call a general strike and stop administrative and educational work starting tomorrow Saturday to protest the changes made to the school curriculum.
The union explained in a statement that “the changes made to the curricula are aimed at fragmenting the social fabric and erasing national identities, in addition to not paying teachers’ salaries for years.”
He also reaffirmed his strong opposition to the changes made by the so-called Houthis Supreme Curriculum Committee to school curricula and imbued them with sectarian ideas.
political slogans
And she expressed her refusal to impose political slogans on students and force them to repeat them in schools, alleging that the Houthis are forcing students to chant the so-called “shout” slogan at the morning assembly instead of the national anthem.
In addition, the union called for an end to the policy of arbitrary exclusion and dismissal of teachers and educators in the areas under the control of the coup, and to replace the militias with volunteers who have nothing to do with the educational process.
In a statement, the government of the unrecognized putschists demanded that the decision to fire 8,000 teachers out of 160,000 civil servants who were arbitrarily dismissed by the Houthis for political reasons be reversed and replaced with elements associated with or loyal to the Houthis.
Release the detained teachers
He renewed the call for the release of thousands of detained, kidnapped and forcibly disappeared teachers in Houthi militia prisons.
The trade union blamed the negative consequences of the strike and the escalation due to the disruption of the educational process on the leadership of the rebels, represented by the so-called Supreme Political Council and the unrecognized government.
Notably, the Yemeni government has repeatedly criticized the Houthis’ ongoing attempts to change the curriculum in schools in recent years, injecting foreign perceptions of Yemeni society.
