On August 22, the Ministry of National Education (MEB) announced the results of permanent teachers' relocation due to family unity, health, life safety excuses, disability and other reasons. Teachers who won a change of place in the displacements carried out on a provincial basis, on the other hand, continue to have problems because they do not apply the right to relocation on a district basis. Regarding the excused relocations between provinces, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the announcement with his expressions: “I would like to give the good news to our teachers who applied for the appointment of an apology with spouse status and similar requests, that all applications were met without exception.” The incomplete practice that emerged with the failure to give orders on the basis of districts in the relocations, the teachers who applied for the family union encountered the situation of working in two districts far from each other in the same city.
THE PROBLEMS CONTINUE EVEN IF STAFFED
Contract teachers, like many rights, due to the difference in status are forced to be away from their family by not being able to benefit from their rights to union. Stating that a fair arrangement is needed in assignment and relocation problems due to status differences, the educators noted that serious differences arise with the status difference between contracted and permanent teachers.
FAMILIES SEPARATE DUE TO DISTANCE EVEN IF IN THE SAME CITY
Even though excused displacements were carried out on a provincial basis, the displacements that were not carried out within the province caused the teachers to become victims in the family unity. Especially when the distances of the districts to each other in some provinces were similar to the distances of some provinces to each other, families in the provinces that came for family unity fell apart again. In order to eliminate the grievances of the teachers, the unions called for the application of a district order. Contracted teachers cannot benefit from the right to family unity, which is due to the status of permanent teachers, one of their rights. Contracted teachers working in the same school, in the same teachers' room with different status, cannot meet with their families because they do not have the right to family union. While the right to family unity given to permanent teachers is incompletely implemented, teachers continue their lives away from their families because this right is not given to contracted teachers.