In this note, we intend to address the differences in employment regulations for teachers or, generally, employees of the Ministry of Education with some other institutions and ministries, using a statistical rather than a slogan-based approach. Recent actions have highlighted the fact that if we take the legal path and have sufficient knowledge to pursue the demands of teachers who have been left behind, the government will have no choice but to accept the logic; because paths such as shouting and protests, although rightfully or wrongfully labeled as political, have been marginalized.

Therefore, without further ado, we draw your attention to this statistical analogy:

The table below shows that there is a significant difference between government employees and other institutions in terms of education and training:

First in terms of the amount of salary increase and second in terms of the timing of this increase.

From a first glance, a slight increase of up to twenty-one percent appears extraordinary compared to the sixty-five percent increase in the Ministry of Energy, fifty percent increase in the judiciary, thirty-five percent special increases, and so on.

From a second perspective, which is the time of implementation, this insignificant increase has caused significant losses for teachers. As you can see in the table, this small increase, even in less than a year and after unprecedented economic pressures and the collapse caused by sanctions on this oppressed group, and the annual inflation of forty percent between 2018 and 2021, can accurately depict the dire living conditions of teachers; while the Ministry of Health, the judiciary, and other ministries and institutions had been thinking about restoring the rights of their employees since 2011, and their employees have suffered the least damage in the storm of inflation, and to this day, regular annual increases have also led to an increase in their cumulative sentences.

Special extraordinary types for ministries that follow the Q.H.M.C (Public Services Management Law) similar to education, in addition to the usual items according to the table below, but for years, the ranking of teachers as special extraordinary has not been seen in teacher regulations and its approval and implementation has been passed from one government to another and from one parliament to another.

During the writing of this note, only a few days have passed since the extraordinary deposit of up to twenty-seven percent to the teachers’ accounts after numerous struggles. This item, which has been implemented for all ministries for almost years, was supposed to be included in the regulations with the name of ranking, so that the vigilance and timely negotiations of cultural activists would eventually convince the government to separate it from the ranking law. The ranking, which was thought to be passing its final stage at the end of the twelfth government, is now stuck in the Education Commission of the Parliament and it is uncertain when and with what quality this law will be able to be implemented.

If a plan had been made in the early years, this law that has been suspended in the second decade and has been on everyone’s lips for years, could have significantly improved teachers’ salaries with annual increases and alleviated a major concern of the country’s cultural community.

We are tired of cliché and repetitive words and we do not see the need to prioritize education and focus on it above all else. We only have to say at the end that:

We, as teachers, acknowledge that we have never been and are not a priority for any government. On the other hand, we not only do not consider the increase in salaries of other employees as injustice, but we see it as their natural right for a dignified life. However, alongside that, we expect teachers to at least have the conditions for a respectable life and to be held in high regard as teachers, so that in the near future, instead of investing in national and social development, we will not suddenly be forced to spend huge amounts on expanding prisons and dealing with the increase in crime and examining thousands of legal cases; especially since we have clearly witnessed its signs in recent years.