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 > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org > or - http://www.etni.org.il ** > ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** > ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** > ----------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------