[etni] Re: Fw: re: WITH YOU!!!!!

If there was less pressure (that is - less notebooks to mark per hour)
maybe more teachers would be willing to mark the bagrut.  What Bari
says about marking all day and night is the reason I have never
applied for this.
     sara g

On 6/26/08, maxinetz <maxinetz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bari, I agree with you, but while I certainly support lowering the quotas
> i.e. raising the salaries, of Bagrut markers, I'm not sure it would make a
> difference in the number of notebooks you'd have to mark within three/four
> days.   Since we'd remain the same number of examiners, and since the
> Ministry would like us to finish marking before the end of the summer (??) ,
> we'd still have 216 notebooks to mark within three/four days.  That is,  at
> least in the short run, until more English teachers join the ranks of
> examiners, enticed by the higher pay!
>
> See you on Tuesday, Maxine Tsvaigrach
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: etni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:etni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Bari Nirenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:08 PM
> To: ETNI
> Subject: [etni] Re: Fw: re: WITH YOU!!!!!
>
> I don't see any reason for us to give in in this case.  Bagrut marking
> isn't anyone's primary source of income.  Yes, it does bring in a nice
> sum, but I manage to put food in my family's mouth for the rest of the
> year without marking Bagrut exams.  Personally, I'm sick and tired of
> doing what I consider a mediocre job of marking simply because there
> are so many exams to mark.  I work seven days a week marking (yes, I
> mark all day on Shabbat and my religious friends make up for that
> missed time by marking at all hours of the day and night -- even at 3
> a.m.) and I still feel very pressured to get it all done, which I
> always do, but at a price.  I start every single marking period
> totally stressed out thinking about the 432 compositions that I'm
> expected to mark a week (unseens are generally easier, though not
> always).  I don't have time to cook or clean my house (as a fellow
> marker discovered when she needed to use my bathroom one day before we
> headed up to the Marvad).  My kids have learned to stay far away from
> me, as I'm not pleasant to be around.  Why on earth would anyone want
> their students' (or children's) exams marked under conditions like
> these?
>
> I'm glad we're finally taking what I hope is a united stand.  We spend
> years preparing our students to take these exams and they deserve to
> have them marked under appropriate conditions.
>
> Bari
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Ask_Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda - lsk120@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: WITH YOU!!!!!
> >
> > I had written to my friends/fellow markers responding to the "Urgent
> > Letter",  but realized I should have also voiced my feelings on ETNI, to
> > show support.
> > No dissention here, either! We had better stick together and not make a
> fool
> > out of ourselves like we did....(finish the sentence)!  IF we give in,
> we'll
> > have only ourselves to blame.
> >
> > Linda Kuras Mizrahi
> >
> >
> > Judy wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks to all of you who wrote in response to the Urgent Message
> regarding
> >
> > marking Bagrut exams this summer - which is imminent. Not one single voice
> > of dissention has been heard.
> >>
> >> Please keep on writing, and come prepared on Tuesday!
> >
> >
> >
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