[etni] Re: article about afternoon's rally
- From: Lev Abramov <lev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:35:23 +0200
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ask@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>It was amazing to see so many teachers!!
>
>
OK. So you've seen so many teachers all in one place. Now what?
Was Livnat there?
Was any single MK there?
Was Ronit Tirosh there, or any other MoE key player?
Noooooooooo?
Then - what's the point? 10 thousand teachers talking to each other?
Have you learned something new that you hadn't known?
What have you guys achieved?
[shaking his head in disbelief]
One doesn't need a PhD in computer science in order to figure out that
firing 1/3 of the teachers will only make classes 30% larger. It is
equally obvious that a school cannot physically provide working space
for 100% of its teachers being there 8 to 4 - the whole system could
only work based on 6-day rotation. So the whole point of the proposed
"reform" is not to improve the inadequate Israeli education - it's about
making the system run on lower $$ voltage.
The only way of handling this Ministry-blessed insanity is by civil
disobedience. Whether or not the unions are going to take part in it, we
have to find a way of making it work. Maybe by taking over schools till
they send the police to smoke us out. Maybe by mass absenteeism ( I can
even think of a few diseases that can cause epidemics - why not? Report
sick on Sept 1!). Anything will do. Except mass rallies and
petition-writing.
Lev
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