Courtney: Teacher Placement

The method used to determine the schools where teachers will be placed seems absolutely awful, but yet to a certain extent unavoidable. Teachers from all over Portugal are placed in schools, sometimes requiring moves from island to island or even continental Portugal to an island. Although it seems that it would make sense if there weren’t enough teachers from the Azores or particular islands to fill the positions, there are a substantial number of Azorean teachers without placements. There’s obviously more to the system that I am not familiar with yet, but it seems inefficient and inconvenient for teachers to have to uproot from island to island or continent to island for 10 months at a time.