[etni] standing your ground

Dear ETNI members

I recently learned that there are some of my Jerusalem colleagues who are 
members of the Irgun and yet have been teaching during the strike. The school 
management  in this particular high school has been sufficiently persuasive, it 
seems, in keeping certain Irgun teachers in the classroom and the few that have 
supported the struggle by not teaching, have been made to feel rather 
uncomfortable - and poorer .  

I'd like to publically support those teachers - friends of mine from Bagrut 
marking -   who despite pressure and unpleasantness have stood their ground.  

I imagine those Irgun members who are teaching also can't feel very 
comfortable!   
Each of us has our own motivation for what we do and I assume any Irgun member 
who at this point is still going into classes as if nothing is going on must  
have no other option or have reasons which I don't yet understand.   

I personally believe that this strike may  be the beginning of  a turning point 
regarding the place of education in the national agenda in the years to come 
and despite all the obvious reservations about this or that, I feel every 
citizen (including Irgun members)  should be out there striking to ensure that 
education doesn't continue to be relegated to where it has been. 


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

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