[etni] article about teachers in France

From: Elana Boteach Salomon <eboteach@xxxxxxxxx>
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:06:42 +0300

Here is an article about what teachers in France are going through right
now...
*French Teachers Rally Against New Rules
*Government Mandate on Classwork Is Seen as an Attack on Long-Held Ideals

By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 11, 2009

TOULOUSE, 
France<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/france.html?nav=el>,
July 10 -- Alain Refalo, a veteran elementary schoolteacher in this
luxuriant corner of southwestern France, decided enough was enough.

In a defiant letter to local authorities, he refused to carry out a new
Education Ministry rule mandating extra classroom work for slow learners
because, in his view, it would overtax his young charges. Worse, he
explained in an interview, the orders from Paris seemed to be part of a
trend inching French schools away from some of their most cherished ideals,
making them resemble something in England or even America.

"I told myself I could not do things that were against my conscience,"
Refalo said.

Full article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002766.html


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