[etni] Re: ministry response to English teachers
- From: "Native English Speaker Teachers" <nativeenglishspeakers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:48:21 +0300
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We have been quiet lately because - despite everything else - we still
believed in the system. We still believed that over the past years, through
hard work both on the part of teachers and Ministry personnel, an element of
mutual respect has been created.
A mutual respect where teachers learned to question, understand better and
appreciate new initiatives set out for them by the decision makers. And
where the decision makers learned that teachers have something to say, that
their experience in the field both past and present lends valuable input to
the decision making process.
But now we are in danger of losing all of this. For we were told that the
next day would be bright and sunny. And when we woke up that morning and saw
that it was raining, no one believed us. No one in the Ministry was even
willing to look out the window and see that it was raining.
We now know that it didn't matter how many of us reported the rain. It
didn't matter what happened that day on the test. The Ministry had decided
beforehand that it would be bright and sunny, and they will stick to this
prediction no matter what.
We ask you - those of you who are a part of the decision making progress -
is it worth throwing out the hard earned respect that has been acquired
between the Ministry and teachers in the field over the past decade just
because of one test? Is it worth going back ten, twenty, thirty years where
it is YOU against US, just because you can't admit that maybe you were
wrong?
If so, this is a very sad day in the history of English teaching in Israel.
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