From: ELEANOR ZWEBNER <eleanorz541@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: for Marlene- projects Projects was NOT a part of our ( the English teachers ) complaint about HOTS. However, the Irgun found out ( during the strike ) that we were doing projects at no extra pay and "they forbid" doing projects. The problem is -- and we should use it as an example -- teachers are afraid NOT to do projects because other teachers who are testers -- even among Irgun members -- see their oral testing status as sancrosanct and advised teachers that they were going to test projects as part of the oral bagrut. So everyone caved in . This same situation can happen if teachers start doing the HOTS -- in 2 years it will be a "fait accompli" and we will be doing not only projects for free ( and Civics and biology get paid in pensionable HOURS for projects ) but we will have the new bagrut log which we are against primarily for pedagogic reasons -- so those of you who are against the New Literature Bagrut as it is --DON'T IMPLEMENT IT! Eleanor ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------