----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Ingride Lewis" <dlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Learning curved - Ha'aretz by Shoham Smith very interesting...why more men at the democratic school? Shabbat shalom. Ingride Laurie wrote: > I just finished reading this interesting article. I'm not surprised by > Smith's comments and it emphasizes a lot of what I feel about report > cards, both as a teacher and parent. > "This is not a report card!" my father exclaimed two months ago, when he > read the end-of-year document that his grandson Yannai brought home after > completing his third year at the Kehila Democratic School in Tel Aviv. > "This is what a report card looks like!" he said, waving the second-term > certificate of his firstborn granddaughter, Noor, a graduate of the gifted > students' class at the Graetz School, who is now entering seventh grade at > Ironi Aleph; both are state-run schools in Tel Aviv. > http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1110517.html ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------