I have been asked to pass on the information I have collected regarding Ofek/Oz and six year schools -- but I haven't found out that much. I have discovered that four year high schools only join Oz and don't need to join Ofek Hadash. Teachers in six year schools that are already in both pay reforms, get paid according to the ratio they teach in middle school vs. high school according to the respective programs. I have been told that this results in chaos -- with some teachers getting paid for meetings and others not, and that calculating number of 'one on one' hours a teacher is obligated to teach is also not easy to oversee. It seems to me that six year schools need to organize together and ask for an alternative agreement or the permission to just join Oz -- in teh process we can threaten to disown our 7th and 8th grades if that an agreement isn't reached -- although becoming a four year school instead of six will cause oits own set of issues. In any case, so far I don't see any cooperation taking place between six year schools -- perhaps becasue the principals don't have anything to gain from it. But how can the Minsitry of Education want to create a teachers room where teachers are fighting over NOT being in the middle school because teaching in high school may be worth more money ... at least your meetings will be paid for .and your gmul histalmut not touched ... Debora On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:37 AM, gunner <gunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ** > Please could you pass on any information regarding 6 year schools - > Ofek/Oz. We are also perplexed! > Thanks Ros > ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** ETNI Blog and Poll http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************