Dulce’s daughters don’t even go on vacation: “I could never give my daughters a way out of the country.”
Be professor, Or teacher, she was synonymous with high status, respect, a profession that many sought… This “dream profession” ceased to be in Portugal for many years.
Between problems in the multiplying classroom, the differences with successive governments, or the ease with which they are “targets” of parents or opinion, the question of wage It is not a detail.
Dulce Coelho is 50 years old and is a teacher of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the 1st and 2nd cycles. It’s from Sátão, Viseu, but has been in the Algarve, for example. Now it is in fermentes, Águeda.
The teacher tells what “Receives the same” since 2006 until now. Sometimes even less – in academic years with no full time.
Has been Discouraged, admits itself, and feels that it has constantly lost purchasing power: At first I could still contribute to the payment of house income, but now it doesn’t even do it and it is the husband who pays everything.
There is no house near school. Goes from Sátão to fermenteelos every day, about 200 km a day. And a few hundred euros a month spent on these trips.
And Dulce has two daughters: “We have to do the budget accounts very well and to deprive each other, because we have reached the end of the month to zero”Confessed the teacher.
The family rarely have lunch or dinner away from homerarely goes to the cinema. The eldest daughter wanted to practice ballet but there is no money.
E and vacation Nor are they priority: “I could never give my daughters a way out of the country.”
But Dulce does not leave his career: “I’m in the profession because I like it” – although I already have thought “seriously” in giving up.
“So many sacrifices and continued not to be able to program my life, because I always depended on where I would be placed, the time I would have. It made me very disappointed and discouraged, ”he says.
