Meanwhile, the ElPlural.com board assures that The issue falls within the correction deadlines and only affects about 95 people. But the logic of the operation makes it impossible to calculate how many people will suffer the consequences of the error, according to those involved and the unions.
The warnings went off last week for the competition for extraordinary meritsknown as a competition. This is the process by which civil servants can choose to improve their work position, for example by having a center closer to their home or that better suits their professional projection. In the competition, merit, seniority and the order of priority in destinations are weighed.
This course had an unprecedented variable that did not exist in previous courses. This is a new employment figure, that of interim teachers who became civil servants last year thanks to the extraordinary stabilization process. Those interims who became civil servantsron in career civil servants on 09/01/2023 They did not have to follow the course as an intern, something like the teacher's MIR.
The year in practice had to be filled by those who passed the opposition in 2023. That is why the opposition teachers consolidated their position as professional civil servants a year later, after the internship course, on 30/06/24. And that is why they have one year less seniority as civil servants to qualify for the competition, compared to the interims who stabilized their position. That was the theory. Those were the rules of the game, but a A computer glitch ruined that plan and the allocation of the competition destinations.
The ministry is reducing the size of the error
The Department of Educational Development and Professional Training makes it clear to El Plural that we are in the preliminary adjudication phase, which implies a deadline for filing accusations; “It is through accusations that the ministry detects a minor error due to its impact on the procedure affected 95 people”.
“The computer algorithm did not correctly implement the breaking factor between two small subgroups in the case of secondment,” sources from Education clarify. Official calculations that affect teacher applications are 138,260 applications submitted, of which 55,740 were valid for placement.”
“The algorithm error has an impact up to 95 persons, that is to say 0.06% of the total“, according to the ministry. But these calculations are disqualified by professionals. The unions that were consulted in this way estimate that the ruling will have direct consequences for 3,000 teachers.
They assume that it is difficult to calculate how many people could be affected before all the lists are published. If a teacher accidentally gets a post in the capital Seville, which gives him a seniority he did not have, this will not only have direct consequences for him, but also for those who had requested that post in the capital and for the subsequent posts on the lists.
“It’s a cascade effect,” explains a physics teacher in Seville, who doesn’t know what her final job destination will be. She should get a better rating if the board updates the listings. “It’s a mess,” says another music teacher from Granada who has already suffered from a unfair recognition of merit When the extraordinary interim stabilization process took place last year, “each year we passed was a bigger surprise than the last.”
A sectoral table for hope after the changes at the ministries
Moreno Bonilla has made changes in those ministries where the noise was greater and where there was more friction between civil servants and the privatized DNA of the PP: health and education. Councillor Patricia del Pozo makes way for Carmen Castillowho was already part of the team of the first advisor of the Moreno Bonilla era, from the Ciudadanos side.
This month ends with a new sectoral table bringing together the unions whose relationship with the previous council had been fluid. On this occasion, CSIF presents, in addition to the pufo with the allocation of places other shortcomings.
For example, there are no designated positions for teachers of therapeutic pedagogy in institutes, the so-called teachers who were announced –just a week ago with much fanfare for educational support in social transformation zones have not been given in their entirety. These failures are added to the 'domino effect' of the failures in the allocation of places. Furthermore, as explained by Elena García of the majority union CSIF, the administration announced that the 150 people directly affected would be reduced to 95 hours later.
“You eat what you get with potatoes”
This new failure of the administration translates into more uncertainty for teachers. While it is true that it is a process that is in a preliminary phase, It is August 5th when the final lists have to be publishedteachers see how a provisional destination list that 'usually undergoes little change can now have a huge impact' because of the chain or domino effect.
The most important effect, however, is the loss of decision. “The problem is that They did not restart the process after the error“They have moved forward and now I don't know if I will get to the accusation stage,” explains one teacher who still does not know if his provisional destination will change.
The ministry explains that, once the error is discovered, it will be resolved, so that it is corrected in the handling of final judgments. But the teachers denounce that they lose the ability to claim provisions for a fate, “we are now losing an opportunity, the fate that results from the correction. I have to eat it with potatoes, I can't say no”, a fate that is always within the teacher's previous requests, but for which in principle there is no possibility of falling back.
