[etni] Fwd: Petition: Enough is enough!

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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:01:34 +0200
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From: Esther Revivo <estherrevivo@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Petition: Enough is enough!
Toby wrote, "I am exhausted! Honestly, I love my job, my pupils, my staff,
but it has become overwhelming. I have no life, no time for myself. The
only things I do are school related.  I used to have a life, I don't
anymore.....It
is about time that we do something about the  demands that seem to be added
on us endlessly."

Toby is 100% right! Folks, enough is enough! I don't know a single high
school teacher that isn't looking to retire or change jobs! I usually teach
only 8 hours but am currently additionally subbing 5 yud aleph literature
hours for a colleague on maternity leave. Those "five" hours are in fact
more than fifteen!! I sit endlessly marking papers and doing other
paperwork!

Perhaps most galling was the fact that changes were made at the very
beginning of the school year! Not everyone vacations abroad; I for one
would have preferred to spend the 14 hours needed to compose a new
Summative Assessment for 'The Road Not Taken' during the summer rather than
during the school year!! It's a nightmare!!

Who can make time to write a petition? Nobody HAS time; the question is who
can MAKE time? Enough IS enough. Is it not bad enough that for years civics
teachers have received payment for their projects while we have not? Why
must we now become didactic administrators filling in a myriad of forms for
pupils? If we are offered monetary compensation, that is one thing, but
once again to be taken advantage of? Why in heavens name should we agree to
this???

United we stand; divided we fall --exhausted to the ground!!
Esther Revivo


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