[etni] [FWD: Re: J.Post article last week]

 
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Subject: Re: J.Post article last week
From: "Nira Artzy" <arnira@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I haven't read the article, but this is a well-known fact and the teachers' 
union keeps talking about it, but nothing has been done. The answer we usually 
get is that there is no budget to build more classes and pay more teachers.  
  
Meanwhile, my school has a 4 pts class in 10th grade with 38 students. The 
teacher obviously can't reach all of them or teach as effectively as in a 
smaller group. In addition, strong students from the 3 pts group, who deserve 
to go to 4 pts, can't do that and their parents complain. They don't want to 
hear that there is a limited budget. Something has to be done to change that, 
but we've been saying that for years!  
  
Nira  
  

Sue wrote:
I am amazed that nobody has commented on the article which 
appeared in the Jerusalem Post last week (on page 6!) citing 
various educational system comparisons.  I'm sorry I can't find 
the article online.  But essentially, Israel ranked very low for 
teachers' salaries but this does not seem a valid comparison 
because Israel generally may have very low salaries (the other 
countries were not listed).  Israel ranked very low in percentage 
of students in higher education but how were all those students 
in "tertiary level" yeshivot counted.  But I couldnt think of any 
reason to question the class size comparisons.  Our class size 
comparison was abysmal.  Why aren't we shouting from the 
rooftops (or from in front of the Knesset)? 

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