[etni] Re: Fw: employing the unemployed as teachers
- From: Michele Ben <mggben@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:48:58 +0200
Here here! I find it totally insulting that were are treated like (use your
imagination here) and paid peanuts, and that every Tom, Tina and Harriet who
decides to dabble in English teaching is told that they will be treated like
royalty. Is the 9000 NIS neto? Maybe I should quit and then sign up again
as an unemployed person who happens to know English?
Michele
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Ask_Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tessa shrem - tessashrem@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: employing the unemployed as teachers
>
> We really do continue to let ourselves be treated like scum, don't we?
> While I applaud the Ministry's awareness of the growing shortage of English
> teachers, in my naivety I fondly imagined that I would go on pension in a
> couple of years, and then be called back to active service in my wheelchair
> or whatever at (finally) a decent salary. HA!
>
> It doesn't really matter (no, I suppose it really does) whether the salary
> mentioned in the English edition of Haaretz, or the one mentioned in the
> Hebrew edition is the one that is being considered - they are both higher
> than the starting salary of a properly trained English teacher, and if
> we're
> talking about NIS9000, that's a lot more than a properly trained English
> teacher gets with quite a few years of English teaching under his or her
> belt.
>
> With all due respect to the abilities of the high tech unemployed, what is
> being offered here is the job of teaching English, not being the computer
> technician at schools. Why will a mere 6 month training course qualify
> these people to earn more than we do? I, as I'm sure many of you did as
> well, read English as my major at University, then did a post-grad degree
> in
> Education. Doesn't this count for something?
>
> I really believe that we should take a stand on this. Let the government
> finally understand that if teachers are paid a decent living wage, they
> will
> automatically receive a higher status in our materialistic society, which
> will translate into a more positive attitude to us on the part of the
> pupils
> and their parents,and more good people will be attracted to the profession.
> Because I still believe that teaching is a profession, and not some job
> that needs only a short 6 month training course.
>
> Tessa Shrem
>
>
>
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