[etni] Re: class size
- From: David Graniewitz <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: candella@xxxxxxxxx, "'David Graniewitz'" <davidzalman@xxxxxxxxx>, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:46:59 +0200 (IST)
Thanks Candella (and others) for your replies. I think that
this is an issue that has to be addressed.
Candella, may I be so bold as to assume that you work in a
religious school? I think that the situation in the
religious sector may be slightly different because of the
wave of Aliyah from the US and the UK recently. Most of the
Olim seem to be religious and therefore the religious
schools are getting more ES pupils today. One of the schools
I teach in is religious and although numberwise there hasn't
been a significant change, of later I have noticed that the
level of the ES pupils has risen because some of them oly
arrived in the country in the past few years as opposed to
in the past when most of the the ES were children of parents
who had come on Aliyah years ago.
This means that it is difficult to put strong non-ES pupils
into the group in order to bolster the numbers. This we can
do in my ohter school which is not religious. There the
level of the ES is not high and allows us to move stronger
pupils into the ES class to try and balance the numbers. In
fact we did so mainly to maintain an ES class as we had also
toyed with the idea of not having one at all. The problem
here is that having an ES class is as much a "political"
decision as a pedagogical one i.e. it would be bad for the
school's image if there were not an English Speakers' class.
PR is everything.
Please keep the ideas coming.
have a good day
David Graniewitz
Jerusalem
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