[etni] Fw: I am proud to be one of you.
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- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:51:47 +0200
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From: Joan Orkin - joano@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: I am proud to be one of you.
Dear Striking Teachers,
I fell in love with teaching many years ago - and it has really taken this
present impasse to make me totally fall in love with my colleagues : my
striking fellow teachers.
Teachers are so optimistic, so brave, so selfless and so kind. The impetus
that is carrying this strike - is not the very badly organized (in my
opinion) Irgun but the belief and passion of the teachers. I know colleagues
who say they are hungry - the cupboards are bare. I know colleagues who are
struggling to repay mortgages. But, all of them believe that we must
continue and we cannot fold.
I have been really depressed and despondent and as many of you have said,
the way out of this is to go and stand with your colleagues at a junction
and feel the huge support around you. I have started standing outside my
school at 7 every morning with placards. At first there were a handful of
teachers and now we have at least 20 teachers and we have been joined now by
the pupils and today and yesterday our Principal came to stand with us. The
hooting and noise of the passing cars lifts one's spirits. When one has bus
driver after bus driver raising their fists and supporting the struggle
along with so much of the public you leave feeling that you cannot falter
now.
The teachers' optimism, self-belief and noble cause are what is driving this
strike now - let us continue.
Joan Orkin
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