[etni] Re: moed bet - names and numbers
- From: "Lev Abramov" <lev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Etni@Freelists. Org" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:59:12 +0200
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-----Original Message-----
Jacquie Mohar wrote ----
"Why do we have to endure this ridiculous system of having students sign up
on the internet and us teachers at school have no idea WHO the students
are."
--snip---------
Yehudit replied:
"Well in our school we didn't know the numbers of those who registered..."
--snip---------
May I make a suggestion.
The most reasonable approach would be to make the registration system
sufficiently transparent for the schools: each school would appoint a
contact person who would get a username, a password and privileges to access
the system. This person would get both the numbers and the names from the
ministry computer. Besides, a well-configured system would automatically
take care of sending the right number of exam forms to every school
participating in the testing process.
As you realize, this will most probably be the next step in improving the
way the system works. You also realize that this will not happen any time
soon unless each school sends a letter or two complaining how bad the
current system is. As soon as it becomes easier to change the system than to
answer all these letters, it will be done. So - start writing your
complaints!
And in general, making the lives of the ministry officials miserable sounds
like a good idea: the more time they spend answering our letters, the less
remains for their own devices (which boils down to inventing more
sophisticated ways of making *our* lives miserable - this seems to somehow
justify their existence). Ideally, this should cause the ministry to go
haywire and start firing their own staff, not teachers - but I doubt there's
enough paper in Israel to achieve that sort of overload. Well, I may dream,
OK?
Just for comparison: in the Health Ministry of Austria there are... 5
people; the rest are doctors, nurses and orderlies dealing with patients,
not paperwork. I've never been to Austria; is it so much smaller than
Israel? ;-)
Shabbat shalom -
Lev
Lev Abramov
The Schiffman Institute - Equal Opportunity Employer
<http://home.schiffman.biz>
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