[etni] personal contact

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Tonight Boyar School teachers  and management invited  all the pupils and 
parents to a gathering to examine what is happening regarding the struggle for 
better education.  Last week we, the teachers, divided up the class lists and 
personally phoned every home to invite families to attend. 

The auditorium  overflowed with many parents and pupils having to stand in the 
aisles. The principal (Ester Shaked) spoke as well as a parents' 
representative, two grade 12 representives and one from grade 11.  The 
chairperson of the school action (strike) committee (Anat Pik) explained 
succinctly and yet with authority and depth the process by which the 
educational system has been eroded and what has driven  teachers to finally say 
"Enough!". 

After that we broke up into groups to allow for much more personal expression. 

It is clear that this event made the issues of the struggle much much much  
clearer to the parents and pupils - something which seems almost impossible to 
achieve through the press. 

I recommend  this type of event to other schools who have not made personal 
contact with the parents. It is a lot more effective than a letter or an email 
and passes on the message that this the struggle has as much to do with parents 
who are not teachers than it has to do with teachers

Jack Pillemer
http://www.schooly.co.il/boyer_english
http:www.geocities.com/jackpillemer

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