[etni] Frustrated English teachers

  • From: Motti <motti46@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bpraag@xxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:38:54 +0200

Read the article in today's Hebrew edition of Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1066535.html

Motti Mendelkern








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Praag" <bpraag@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: [etni] Are you serious


> Bari are you really serious? Does it matter if it is gross or net! It will 
> take a qualified English teacher quite a number of years to get to that 
> level be it gross or net.
>
> It shows that the government is willing to put its money where its mouth 
> is just not in the case of "real" teachers like us. As you know it has 
> taken numerous strikes, work to rules etc just to get to 5300 (New 
> Horizons) as a starting salary with a lot of extra hours thrown is as 
> well.
>
> All of a sudden the powers that be have woken up and realised that in a 
> very short time there will not be enough teachers around and lo and behold 
> they have found a pool of unemployed hi techies to breach the gap.Even 
> more amazing is the fact that they have, abracadabra, found the money to 
> offer them as well.
>
> Not good enough in my book. I am a veteran teacher like you and I work two 
> jobs to make enough to cover the mortgage loans etc etc.Merecenary, short 
> term thinking on behalf of the government. In the long term we are up the 
> you know what creek without any English teachers.
> Barry Praag
> Har Vagai
> Dafna
>
>
>
>
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:56:33 +0200
> Subject: [etni] Re: Fw: new English teachers
> From: Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have to ask this again -- are you all talking about how much you net or
> how much you gross?  I'm fairly certain that the 9000 in question was 
> gross
> salary.  I'm in my 20th year with a full misrah and an MA and I gross well
> over NIS 9000.
> Bari
>
>
>
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