[etni] Haaretz, Clouds over the blackboard

Clouds over the blackboard  By Daniel Ben Simon
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899336.html
As in the past, this year too the nation's teachers went in to their schools early to prepare for the new academic year. Summer vacation is over, thank God, and everyone, or nearly everyone, breathes a sigh of relief ahead of the return to the classroom - even if only for a short time, before everyone goes back on vacation again during the upcoming holiday season.
The teachers at the Chaim Herzog High School in Kfar Sava got together this week for what is known in the education establishment as "preparation days." Many of them looked tense and gloomy. Some difficult things have been happening to the teachers over the last few years. They bear what is perhaps the loftiest of burdens - educating the next generation - and don't seem happy about it. Almost all of them have felt the quiver of excitement that precedes the beginning of the school year, when they face their new students, but the pride has disappeared and the feeling of carrying out a mission has dissipated.
Had it been up to the teachers, they would have waged battle - even a violent one - to shake up the leaders and citizens of the state so that everyone would know that those responsible for the education of our children are now fighting for their personal survival and for the continued existence of the teaching profession.
A veteran teacher, 30 years in the field, said fervently that she is lucky her children are no longer in school. Another teacher wondered at the silence of the state in light of the terribly desperate situation of the educators of the next generation. How can it be, she asked, that the government is slashing education funding as though it were cutting out luxuries - and everyone keeps silent ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899336.html 

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