[etni] Re: The modular unseen

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Lev, if the  Modular Bagrut is a conspiracy by the Powers that Be to raise 
grades artificially without improving standards, then how do you explain the 
low grades on last year's Modular Bagrut, at least at the highest levels?

Maxine Tsvaigrach
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From: "Lev Abramov" <lev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ask@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:41 PM
Subject: [etni] Re: The modular unseen


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> Dear Liora:
>
> Have no illusions: those writing the exams know perfectly well what they
> are doing. They've been properly instructed, and they are rendering the
> best services possible for the money they get.
>
> The point of the latest changes in the Bagrut testing, the way I see it,
> is to ensure more pupils pass the test, no matter what they know. If the
> scheme (scam?) indeed succeeds, the Ministry will report "a considerable
> improvement" without having to invest money nor effort in maintaining
> (or, G-d forbid, raising!) the real knowledge standards.
>
> The whole set - bending the assessment; letting the pupils cheat during
> the exam; getting rid of the more experienced teachers; giving more
> power to the corrupt and incompetent principals and district heads;
> locking the teachers in school till 4pm; desroying the in-service system
> based on incentives and replacing it with one based on threats of
> getting fired - looks like some Robert Ludlum "world conspiracy"
> thriller. Unfortunately, it is quite real.
>
> There's no crime people won't perpetrate given a proper amount of power
> and money  as an incentive. Herostratos would blush, dwarfed by the
> current atrocity.
>
> No wonder parents in development towns do their best to send their kids
> to boarding schools closer to the center of the country, and those in
> the center who can afford it send their children to study in
> universities in Europe and the US. If this horrendous plan finds its way
> to the system (and with the non-functional unions and indifferent/scared
> teachers, I can see no force that would prevent this disaster from
> happening), in less than ten years we'll witness the total destruction
> of public education in Israel. We have been witnessing it for some time
> already. Take a look at the old bagrut exams and compare them with the
> ones given today. It's like Charles Dickens vs Tom Clancy.
>
> Go thoroughly through the list of changes proposed by the Dovrat gang.
> There must be something about a compulsory lobotomy for new teachers:
> critical thinking is incompatible with the system they are planning to
> install.
>
> Yours -
>
> Lev
>
> ask@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>---snip---
>>I do hope that these comments are taken into account next time an exam
>>is written.
>>---snip---
>>
>>
>
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