Do they go or do not go to school months? How did the students come to the Victims in the Teachers' dispute

While the unions urge the teachers to boycott the festivities and parents to keep their children at home, and the Minister of Education insists that schools will be prepared, as a parent, I am confused. Different messages about the first day of school, September 8, “do not come Monday”/ “I announce the time”/ “We don't know anything”/ “We have a festivity”. We do not know whether to buy children flowers for teachers and teachers or explain that the first day of school is, in fact, a boycott and protest day.

September 8, 2025 had to be the normal beginning of a new school year. For me, a parent with a child in the 12th grade, this day should have meant especially safety: entering a decisive year, with baccalaureate and admission to the faculty, without beams and without tensions. Instead, I read that the unions call it “the day of the registration of dignity”, and the ministry presents it as “the day of the festivities”. But behind these labels remains my reality: I do not know if I send my child to school on Monday or if he stays home. And I'm not alone. I think of parents who have younger children, in the primary classes, who expect the emotion of the first school day, with the bouquet of flowers in their hand.

Between the trade unionists and the ministry – we, the parents, who do we vote with?

In the last days, education unions have publicly sent categorical messages: on September 8 there should be no festivities from the beginning of the school year. The president of the Federation Spiru Haret, Marius Nistor, said that the teachers will be on the street, protesting, and urged their parents to keep their children at home. In addition, the trade union organizations have recommended the teachers to enter the classes, but not to teach, but only to write the title of the lesson, as the form of symbolic boycott.

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