[etni] Re: ministry response to English teachers
- From: "motti" <motti46@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "etni" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:01:01 +0200
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Hi,
I don't know who "NativeEnglishSpeakers" are, but agree to every word
they/he/she wrote. The answer given by the ministry doesn't hold water.
Mordechai Mendelkern
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From: "Native English Speaker Teachers" <nativeenglishspeakers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:48 AM
Subject: [etni] Re: ministry response to English teachers
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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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