I heard a few days ago that teachers were going to hang up their gowns on their desks, turn their backs on their blackboards, and leave their students stuck in long breaks without classes. I heard that the teachers were tired of the government's promises, tired of growing old inhaling the chalk dust and the salary injustice the government throws at them every month.

In all this, the National Organization of Teachers appeared on television with bundles of speeches of dissatisfaction and cried like a child who wants to suckle. It emerged crying, but hours later it would resurface with dry tears and hitting some sort of smile. I was saying that I heard a few days ago that the teachers wanted to go on strike.

The Single Wage Scale messes with teachers' heads, multiplies their anxiety without, in the least, subtracting their uncertainties. And to this day I still don't know if there will be a teachers' strike or not, the only thing I know is that the National Organization of Teachers doesn't need any strike, the ONP is itself a structure already on continuous strike. A group that even if it unites all its members, is incapable of paralyzing a single class.

The ONP has shown us that it is a wind-powered organization, an organization that doesn't even have a clue about organizing a simple strike. It makes me very impressed with this organization, because the teachers who make it up are the first to demand discipline, integrity and clarity in everything in the classroom. After all, my teachers together cannot conceive a clear idea for a strike?

I know that I am the fruit of teachers that are part of that organization, but for a moment I feel like summoning them all, putting them in a room and teaching them how to calculate the quadratic equation of a strike. Other teacher organizations, in countries as poor as ours, when they decide to announce a strike, everything is done according to a typical teacher philosophy: they hold debates, draw the general lines of the strike, organize meetings in institutions that oversee education, hold camps, and fill the newspapers with well written and inflammatory articles. What about our ONP? Our ONP calls the television, reads a speech, the next day sends a communiqué correcting the speech, three days later the Mozambican representative appears distancing himself from everything.

I think that the ONP could also accept students as members, I have no doubt that there are students capable of helping the organization out of the internal strike of disorganization it is in. After all, teachers are disorganized?