**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** (To read the whole article, go to - www.etni.org/news/avertingstrike.htm ) Editor's Notes: Averting the next school strike The Jerusalem Post -February 11, 2005 By David Horovitz A copy of the Dovrat Report, for the radical reform of the Israeli education system, was placed in the teachers' room at one of my children's schools not long ago. "Every now and again, one of my colleagues goes over, picks it up, and begins leafing through it," a teacher there told me this week. "But then, pretty soon, you hear a muttered wail of, 'I just can't face it,' and the offending volume is put back down again. "We teachers are a fairly conservative bunch," she went on, "not always the most receptive to change. But in this case, I think there's genuine cause for concern. Many of the ideas behind Dovrat are good. But are these recommendations realistic?" (To read the whole article, go to - www.etni.org/news/avertingstrike.htm ) ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####