Sharjah Authority for Special Education Director Ali Al Hosani confirmed that there were many notes about reducing teachers ’wages in Sharjah, which led the authority to do a questionnaire and distribute it to schools to find out the amount of financial flow for it, as it became clear that 88% paid the fees of their children, 60% of the students’ parents They paid the full fees, which caused the authority to issue a circular that private schools are not entitled to make any changes in the educational staff, whether by laying off the teacher, reducing his wages, or giving him leave, except after referring to the authority and taking written approval and the existence of an alternative plan to preserve the rights Teachers.
He stated that schools must return the rights of teachers, during a period of 5 days, and if you do not do so, you will be subject to a violation against every teacher who reduced his salary, stressing that 30 schools ’requests to reduce employee wages have been rejected, and the authority will not receive any new request for fear that the process will be affected Educational.
It indicated that Sharjah private schools ended the services of 98 teachers, forced 87 teachers to take out rentals without pay, and reduced the salaries of 910 others, indicating that they would not tolerate any school that did not return the rights of teachers and the sums deducted from their salaries.
He pointed out that the authority provided a number of services to private schools, as it set up devices and cameras to follow buses, and facilitated the procedures for schools to develop smart platforms for them, and to provide workshops for distance education, noting that private schools were introduced during the pandemic period "Corona" systems to help in the process Distance education for students and the provision of educational and vocational programs targeted 10 thousand teachers out of 20 thousand teachers in Sharjah private schools through 44 training sessions for the process of distance education.
He continued: The authority’s procedures during the Corona crisis included exempting and renewing schools from some fines and licenses, indicating that 50 million dirhams had been paid for the maintenance of private schools in Sharjah.