Strike

As the title of this entry implies, there was a strike at my school in Rota today! Why would the teachers go on strike you ask? Well actually, it was the students who went on strike! Mostly it was just some of the 1o and 2o Bachillerato students, but it was still a big deal for me, as I have never known students to go on strike at home. When I arrived at the school today, there was a large group of very loud students (they actually had a bullhorn and everything) chanting in the street, and policemen were there stopping traffic. The students were protesting the additional class time that was added to the schedules of all the Institutos in Rota as of this Wednesday. Our school decided that meant we would start at 8:15am (instead of 8:30) every day and that we would have longer classes (1 hour instead of 55 minutes) and that the second recreo (break) would only be 10 minutes (instead of 15).

Even the teachers weren't happy about this change, and they put up quite the fuss about it at the meeting we had on Tuesday when they broke the bad news to us. I can understand their frustration though, especially since school started almost a month and a half ago and they are being forced to change their whole schedules now. Not to mention the fact that they don't get paid anything extra, although they will be working longer every day.

Oh, and did I mention that we don't even have any idea when exactly all of the school holidays are yet? Plus we have a holiday coming up on Thursday, November 1st, and none of the teachers know if we have school on the Friday or not! Just another one of those things that takes some getting used to I guess!