[etni] Re: etni Digest V3 #77

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I have been teaching for 34 years in our country.  My real shock is not what 
is happening now, but what I saw 34  years ago when I first came to work in 
a well known school which I  will not name. I  came face to face with wasted 
time, teachers who, in the main, cannot be called professionals, principals 
who obviously were chosen for their political connections and speaking 
abilities and seemed to me to be more interested in in-fighting than 
progress.

I came face to face with dirt - teachers who were either too tired fighting 
this phenomena or where simply used to garbage under their feet. I wish I 
had a shekel for every lesson I had to delay and ask the kids to help me 
pick up the piles of garbage under their seats. A perennial comment was that 
I was the only teacher who demanded clean floors. As I walked through the 
halls of learning, my ears covered to keep out the constant noise and 
screaming, I would see that it was so.

The technical abilities of the teachers I have known were and are almost 
nil - everyone had and has computers and other electrical gadgets at home. 
At work only texts.

I am not talking about one but many schools I have worked in. A male 
teacher, whose first income is teaching, cannot be expected to make a living 
with the low pay you and I receive.

I can go on and on without a stop, I am sorry to say.

Nothing has hardly changed, and seems to have gotten worse. Just read the 
letter copied below.

Learning, though, does go on. Just consider the extent of private tutoring, 
the millions spend on these by parents who can buy better schooling and 
teaching.

And finally, most teachers see their work as a comfortable way to earn a 
second income and come home in time to take care of their kids. Can you 
imaging your doctors, engineers, lawyers, police, army or any other 
profession operating in such a way? Doesn't that in part explain the lack of 
fighting spirit among teachers to improve teaching methods, modernize and so 
on?

So, ladies (and a few men), try to see the problem for what it is and try 
not to blame others for our sins.

Hanan

P.S. I am expecting a wave of attacks against what I wrote above. And the 
same conditions will continue and continue and ........ ........ .



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> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Barry Praag <bpraag@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [etni] Article in Haaretz
>
> Thanks for posting the article. I am having difficulty
> in understanding what Lev's problem is with this. The
> fact that this country is coming apart at its social
> seams should not surprise anyone. Add to that the
> continuing cuts and shirking of governmental
> responsibilty gives us a recipe for social disaster.
> The education system up to now has not been decimated
> as have other government departments.
> They are going to try and break us and pull us apart
> so that the privitisation vultures can pick over the
> remains.
> There we are Lev a diatribe or discussion of the
> article take your pick.
>
>
>
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