---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marlene <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: NO MORE FORMS- NO MORE ... And now they're increasing the paperwork for students with accommodations. The latest edict is to make a separate file for each such student. Ok if you have a few - but what about 20 students in a class of 28 (and 10 in a class of 20). Then there's the hakraot (to be read aloud) - where the teacher is expected to churn out burned discs. Well, at least the school was kind enough to help with that. Hagit wrote: > I'm sorry to ruin the vacation. but. > Am I the only one who feels that the forms (LOTS and LOTS of different kinds > of forms, graphic organizers, rubric tables and charts, mainly ministry > ones, but also different internal school ones, different people within the > same school, a variety of district/ professional inspectorate forms etc. > etc. etc.) are overwhelming, repeating themselves only in different titles, > but still require LOTS of working hours that I don't have in school, meaning > that I can't stop feeling being drowned by them at home on weekends and > vacations * FOR NO PAY* ! > Helppppppppppppppppppp!!!! > ENOUGH!!! > > I am only a 3rd year teacher and already feeling that the paperwork is > taking all my time and energy and distracting me from what I love and came > to do which is. to simply TEACH. > > It's a very big dissonance for me and I sometimes feel like Sisyphus. > > This year I will be attending an Ofek Hadash workshop. I understand that > this is the crucial year when teachers quit.the third year. Having been in > the system for the past 3 years I know why. > > No Ofek Hadash workshop meant to help us not to quit this profession is > going to comfort me at this time. I have had ENOUGH! > > The only solution will be to stop this bureaucracy avalanche before I > collapse!!!