[etni] bagrut

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Every year we have problems with the bagrut - tricky questions, listening 
comprehension at the wrong time or on the wrong channel, questionable texts, 
extraordinary answers that no one had thought of, problems for particular 
populations, etc. etc.  WE want fix-ups - make it nicer next time, grade it 
more leniently, another moed, etc. etc.
 
Why don't we just come to the logical conclusion, as have so many leading 
educators in the country?  The Bagrut is not a good thing.  It has more room 
for error and misjudgment, more variance in level of difficulty, than most 
tests around the world.  In English it doesn't really reflect command of the 
language, no matter how many different versions with fancy names and acronyms 
we try.  
 
Placated by gmul, teachers allow Senior High School to become a bagrut conveyor 
belt, teaching to become test coaching, and students to become bored and 
disgusted as they push, pull, pinch, hoist and drag them through the bagrut.
 
And this wikll determine who our academics will be, who our jobholders will be, 
and eventually who our leaders will be.
 
Instead of quibbling about what was wrong with this or that particular bagrut, 
why don't we talk about alternatives?  It's time for a forum.  Of course, there 
are forums like that every few years and they usually culminate in having more 
possible exams added (like salsa).  But we shoudn't stop thinking.
Judy
                
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