The director of Karinthy even lobbied the state secretary for the reinstatement of the fired teachers

The trial of the six teachers who were dismissed by the Külső-Pest Tankerületi Központ on November 30 last year from the Karinthy Frigyes High School in Budapest for their participation in civil disobedience continued with witness hearings at the Metropolitan Court, reports 444.hu.

The principal of the school was also called as a witness, but Krisztina Rabel, the head of the school district also appeared at the hearing. As they write, the trial started with clarifying questions, in which the teachers claimed that they were fired not because of the labor law rules, but because they were the faces of civil disobedience, whom the school could hardly replace without losing quality. According to them, the school district wanted to give the school a shot to stop civil disobedience by sending the best teachers.

At the same time, according to Krisztina Rábel, it was the missed class numbers that made the decision, she did not differentiate Karinthy negatively from the other schools on the basis that the faces of civil disobedience were here.

According to him, the irreplaceability of teachers is also not true, because according to him, teachers have been replaced. However, Krisztina Rábel spoke about the number of lessons and not about the knowledge and quality workforce that the school lost by firing the aforementioned teachers. According to him, contrary to the claim of the plaintiff, no classes were canceled due to the dismissals, because he had already decided in a previous school year that a bilingual class would not start.

The plaintiffs also used as an example in their discrimination of Karinthy the fact that the school district did not even deal with the fact that the school principal had repeatedly informed the school district that there were life-threatening waterlogging problems. According to Krisztina Rábel, these problems were investigated and were not life-threatening. He added that this school received the most maintenance support in the 18th district, but Rábel did not claim that “every school could not be spent ten times more”.

The director of Karinthy was heard as the first witness, László Hutai. When asked by the judge, he said that he did not want to influence the teachers’ decision, because they are adults and graduates. At the same time, at the request of the school district leader, he informed them that a strike is a legal protest, while civil disobedience can have consequences. The head of the school district informed the school principals about this in a separate meeting. Hutai always tried to indicate to his colleagues that this was a dangerous form of protest, but he accepted their decision.

According to the director, in many cases the civil disobedience reports mostly fell during a class when the teacher had a broken class or went on a trip. The classes that had to be kept were kept.

According to Hutai, even on the worst strike days, about as many hours were missed as during a flu epidemic, but substitutions at school could be skipped. When asked by the judge, the director also says that there was no shortage of teachers at the school before the dismissals.

According to 444.hu, Hutai also talked about how difficult it was to replace the fired teachers. He primarily sought out retired teachers to come back to teach. There was also someone who had already taught at the university, but at the request of the director, he went back to Karinthy. The division of subjects and the timetable had to be modified several times, and this entailed a lot of work.

The director tells us that, for example, he couldn’t find a teacher who taught biology in German, even though Hutai even asked the state secretary that those teachers who teach a critical subject could be re-employed at least as teachers. Since this did not work out, biology is taught in Hungarian in the German major. Forced solutions and non-professional replacements are not visible in KRÉTÁ for the school district.