2024-04-11 01:34:51
According to the minister who decided to retire, this instruction was related to the evaluation scale of the eleventh intermediate examinations. On Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė responded to these statements on Facebook.
She claims that she does not understand how her request could have affected the minister so much and thanked him for his work.
“That’s the kind of tension that happens in politics. It happens that the molars also get covered. Sometimes the whole world seems wrong, especially when you genuinely care about what you’re doing, and the voices of supporters are usually quiet and critics are naturally loud. It happens that you are disappointed with colleagues, associates or managers.
Everyone decides for himself who is the last straw and what choices to make. However, before yesterday’s drop turns into a rumor-covered quagmire, I’ll mention a few important things.
Interim settlements are a good idea and the challenge is not them, but the quality of the tasks and the organization of the process. We knew it wouldn’t be ideal, so we immediately agreed that everyone who wanted to could reschedule, even when we didn’t know what the tasks would be in general.
In separate settlements, assessments had to be recalculated due to the incorrectness of the tasks. In this way, it is as if we solved the injustice towards those children, who we only managed to solve those tasks if they were formulated correctly. But there were children who were able to solve even such tasks, which were not included in the program and were not correct. And adding points to those who get less creates an unfairness in relation to these children.
Since I received an appeal from such students, and I thought a lot about it myself after the reassessment of the commissions, it is natural that I asked my adviser to suggest to the SSC to think about what can be done in this case so that the correction of an injustice in one place does not mean a feeling of injustice elsewhere.
It is not very clear how such a request could have hurt the minister so much that he decided not to continue the work and not to complete the things we had agreed on – the smoothest possible conclusion of the interim settlement process and lessons for next year, preparation for the VBE session, missing material for programs, activities of NŠA for which we agreed that help would also be needed from outside, because the minister himself asked for it.
My colleagues know that even those problems that seem small in the general cauldron of problems like to be solved. They are not necessarily solvable, not necessarily one hundred percent, not necessarily immediately, not necessarily that I know a good (or any) way to solve the problem. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have the right to ask the minister to pay attention to a problem, no matter how small it may seem to him. Just as it does not mean that any solutions are proposed, as said, without discussion (in that message alone, which the minister read as a judgment to do something, there were at least three different options, how the problem could be tried to be solved).
So I’m sorry that a fairly natural request to draw attention to a problem we’ve created by trying to solve another has caused such a strong reaction. As I have already said, I recognize the right to emotion, but then the facts must be, as the classics say, on the table. So that other people are not accused of things that didn’t really happen or are accused of powers they don’t have.
And despite such an unexpected atomazga, I thank Minister Gintautas for what he managed to do and solve during these almost years”, wrote the Prime Minister of Lithuania on Facebook.
2024-04-11 01:34:51