School principals resigning because of Baccalaureate results

The poor results of the first session of the 2011 Baccalaureate could bring changes in the management of schools where the graduation percentage was low.
Some high school principals who had no graduates have already announced that they will resign.

Nationally, there were 29 high schools where no student succeeded in passing the baccalaureate in this session.

The first principal who announced his resignment after the disastrous baccalaureate results were published was the principal of the high school Ioan Slavici in Timişoara, one of the nine schools in the county of Timiş where no student graduated.

Though it was her last year in the education field, Victoria Drobovoschi announced that she would abandon the school board.

"If we were more vigilant, we would have done more additional work. We did, but you know that students, whether part-time or full-time, barely came to this preparation. I think everyone is guilty and therefore should bear the failure with our heads up high and understand the need for change and firstly to change ourselves, to let another teacher that is more well-intentioned perhaps, better prepared and can take better measures", Victoria Drobovoschi said .

The director of the Forest High School in Timişoara, Mariana Iftimie, has already signed her resignation, and a decision on this will take on Wednesday after a meeting with students and teachers in school.

Resignation also in Mureş

The principal of the Band Group School in the Mureş County, Gheorghe Creţi, decided to resign and said he would go on Wednesday at the School Inspectorate.
The results in 2011, when no student passed the baccalaureate, were not much different from the results in 2010 when at the first session of the examination only three students graduated.

Gheorghe Creţi said, however, that he could not possibly raise the students' level and therefore resigned.

"We teach at a school with agricultural profile. As we are in a plain area with an agriculture profile, this is what we want and this is why the children enroll here. If you watched the interviews of some parents, on Monday, on the news, you have already noticed that the children have a lot of work to do and have no time to learn - that was the answer of all those who were interviewed."

"I want to get to the inspectorate to ask for my resignation, I mean, I know it"s a hard job and in the future the existing classes will have no chances to pass the baccalaureate," Gheorghe Creţi said.

Examination "should be held differently"

At the Agricultural School Group from Costeşti in the Argeş County, another school where all candidates have failed the baccalaureate exam, principal Anca Maria said that so far she had no reasons to resign.

"The exam should be held differently because the training level of a theoretical high school student is a lot different from that of a group school student", Maria Anca stated.

"The children graduating from a group high school take the same math exam as the ones graduating from a theoretical high school at a biology or history class."

"Our students get 3, 4, 5 in mathematics. At a theoretical high school 7 in mathematics will do. For the baccalaureate the programme is the same," Anca Maria said.

Advisor Mirabela Marandici stated that the Ministry of Education did not demand the principals of the high schools with poor results to resign and that this decision was entirely theirs.


Translated by: Iulia Florescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University