According to the Irgun ( call them, fax them or email them for a letter for yr school administration) marking standardized tests for the Ministry (or Manhi or anyone...) without proper remuneration is one of the items for which we are striking . They forbid us to grade Maitzav exams until the issue has been settled. Re: making it the test for the semester grade -- I personally object. I want to send pupils home with specific items to STUDY, LEARN and prepare for a test. I hate : "tomorrow is an English test so let's go to a movie..." already in grade 8. Unseen material (reading or listening or writing), should be only a small per centage of their grades at this stage As for Mr Graniewitz's source of information --it simply makes sense -- or dollars and cents: if the tests are important to the Ministry, then they want someone to mark them. If they had the funds -- they would hire someone to do the job. .> From: tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx; etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [etni] Re: Meitzav> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 07:22:47 +0300> > YES, I work for the Ministry and Yes, I care for any matter concerning > English studies in Israel, and YES, I do agree that there are issues that > need to be dealt with. Your email to ETNI is totally mis-leading. Please > enlighten me by stating your source of information. I wish you and your > students all the very best for the coming Meitzav exam (Internal/external) > and I sincerely hope that you, your staff members, your school, etc. benefit > from the results.> > Yours sincerely> > Avi tsur> > > >From: David Graniewitz <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> >Reply-To: graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: fruma2000@xxxxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [etni] Re: Meitzav> >Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:38:09 +0300 (IDT)> >> >Meitzav pnimi just means that the Ministry has run out of> >money to mark all the tests so Meitzav tests will be marked> >by external examiners on alternate years for schools.> >If your school has had the good fortune to be declared one> >in which there will be a Meitzav pnimi this year, you will> >have to mark the damn thing for no renumeration. The grade> >is meant to be used internally, whatever that means.> >I'm all for the Irgun screwing up these unnecessary and> >wasteful exams this year.> >David Graniewitz> >Jerusalem> >-----------------------------------------------> >** Etni homepage - www.etni.org **> >** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx **> >** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **> >-----------------------------------------------> >> > > -----------------------------------------------> ** Etni homepage - www.etni.org **> ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx **> ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **> ----------------------------------------------->