{"id":22147,"date":"2026-04-10T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/speerpunten\/educational-quality\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:59:01","slug":"educational-quality","status":"publish","type":"speerpunt","link":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/en\/speerpunten\/educational-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational quality"},"template":"","class_list":["post-22147","speerpunt","type-speerpunt","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"speerpunt_nummer":"3","samenvatting":"The quality of education is under pressure. Parents worry a lot about the teacher shortage, canceled lessons, declining quality of reading and math lessons, full classes, and rising work and performance pressure.","titel":"Focus point - Education quality","inhoud":"<p><strong>The quality of education is under pressure. Parents worry a lot about the teacher shortage, canceled lessons, declining quality of reading and math lessons, too full classes, and rising work and performance pressure.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Strikes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The large strikes in recent years show there is much unhappiness in education, not only about salary. Work pressure, scale increase, and unhappiness with how education is organized also play an important role. Parents see the problems and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oudersonderwijs.nl\/nieuws\/brede-steun-onder-ouders-voor-extra-onderwijsgeld\/\">mostly support<\/a> the demands of teaching staff.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Right to education<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Children in the Netherlands must go to school. The government must make sure they get good education in a safe place. This needs qualified teachers. Now the government cannot always do this. We cannot accept this. Children have the right to good education that fits their development. All children also need structure, predictability, and small groups. Too large classes, canceled lessons, and changing teachers put high pressure on children and harm their learning.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Teacher shortage<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In big cities, primary schools now have huge teacher shortages. In the coming years, shortages will grow across the country. The four-day lesson week, classes with more than 35 children, or subjects in secondary schools where students sometimes have no lessons for months are real problems. The measures taken so far do not fix the problem.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Invest in education<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Education needs lasting improvements. Teachers must get fair pay. Work pressure must be lower. Classes should be smaller. More help in class and school is needed. Teacher training must improve. Teachers need more time for training, for example in tailored education.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Our views:<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Aim strongly to stop the teacher shortage by investing much more in job conditions. Limit teachers leaving and increase new teachers. Do not give up that all children deserve regular lessons from a qualified teacher. <\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Make a clear difference between temporary emergency measures and lasting solutions. Make sure unwanted emergency measures do not become the norm. <\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Create a leave scheme for parents who must teach their children because of regular canceled lessons. <\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Make sure there are always more helpers in class and school. This lowers work pressure for teachers, gives children more attention, and more time for lesson planning and training. <\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Set a maximum class size rule. Schools can only go above this temporarily and with good reason. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","afbeelding":1451,"stelling":{"ID":2168,"post_author":"9","post_date":"2020-03-09 14:11:20","post_date_gmt":"2020-03-09 13:11:20","post_content":"","post_title":"Stelling onderwijskwaliteit","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"draft","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"2168","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-15 16:08:41","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-15 15:08:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.crewontour.com\/?post_type=stelling&#038;p=2168","menu_order":0,"post_type":"stelling","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},"banner_subtitel":"","banner_afbeelding":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ouders-Onderwijs-Image-7.jpg","video_of_afbeelding":"afbeelding","meer_informatie":[{"ID":20857,"post_author":"17","post_date":"2024-04-16 15:00:47","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-16 13:00:47","post_content":"","post_title":"Staat van de Ouder","post_excerpt":"Ieder jaar onderzoekt Ouders &amp; Onderwijs hoe ouders denken over het onderwijs in Nederland. De resultaten worden in het voorjaar openbaar gemaakt in een (online) rapportage: De Staat van de Ouder.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"staat-van-de-ouder","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 11:22:37","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 09:22:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/staat-van-de-ouder\/","menu_order":5,"post_type":"page","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":21432,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2020-01-27 14:57:10","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-27 13:57:10","post_content":"","post_title":"Quality of the education","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"quality-of-the-education","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-10 12:08:48","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-10 10:08:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":20709,"guid":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/quality-of-the-education\/","menu_order":11,"post_type":"page","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":22367,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2019-12-11 11:04:55","post_date_gmt":"2019-12-11 10:04:55","post_content":"","post_title":"Reflecting on the teacher shortage","post_excerpt":"It is alarming news. Because of the teacher shortage, sixteen Amsterdam primary schools will close their doors for a week. Stichting Openbaar Basisonderwijs Westelijke Tuinsteden (StWT), under which the schools fall, uses the time wisely to reflect on the teacher shortage.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"reflecting-on-the-teacher-shortage","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-11 11:04:55","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-11 10:04:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/reflecting-on-the-teacher-shortage\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":22388,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2019-09-18 12:01:24","post_date_gmt":"2019-09-18 10:01:24","post_content":"","post_title":"Budget day: no extra money for tackling the teacher shortage","post_excerpt":"No extra money is included in the budget for the ministry of education to tackle the teacher shortage and high workload. With different actions, Ouders &amp; Onderwijs asked together with unions for extra money to invest in the people who give our children good education. In March this year, 40,000 teachers stood on Malieveld with a cry for more money. But also recently, with the action #TeacherWanted, we ask for attention to this problem.\n\nLobke Vlaming, director of Ouders &amp; Onderwijs: \u2018More and more parents worry about missed classes and education quality. Our children have the right to good education, so more must be done.\u2019","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"budget-day-no-extra-money-for-tackling-the-teacher-shortage","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-09-18 12:01:24","post_modified_gmt":"2019-09-18 10:01:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/budget-day-no-extra-money-for-tackling-the-teacher-shortage\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"call_to_action":"contact","call_to_action_2":"geen","zoekwoorden":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Educational quality - Ouders &amp; Onderwijs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/en\/speerpunten\/educational-quality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Educational quality - Ouders &amp; 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