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English-speaker classes to be dropped The Jerusalem Post - May 10, 2007The Education Ministry has decided to cancel English classes for native English-speaking pupils at the end of the current school year, The Jerusalem Post has learned.The courses in question, offered to thousands of students at all age-levels who excel in English, depending on parent interest, are classified as TALAN (tigbur limud nosaf) - Education Ministry-recognized enrichment courses that take place outside the ministry's formal curriculum.According to a letter posted on the Web site of the English Teachers' Network in Israel (www.etni.org), the decision to cancel the program follows a parental protest over the fact that the courses are not funded by the Education Ministry, but rather require parents to pay for the teachers.The program's cancellation would be "disastrous," one English teacher in the Sharon area, a native English speaker herself, told the Post. "[The native-speakers'] level of English is very different, and the overall level of English would suffer."(To read the whole article, go to - http://www.etni.org/news/dovrei_anglit.htm )
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