[etni] official answers
- From: ווהל רנה <renew@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:15:35 +0200 (IST)
In reply:
We all know where we can official answers. The point I was trying to
make is that we also know that our inspectors (whom I assume we all know
and I for one, like personally and respect professionally - they have
usually been teahers like us ) must be reading this list. They neeed to
keep in touch with the field, and when the topic is neutral, they
sometimes contribute. However, they cannot take sides publicly on
controversial issues involving Ministry policy. I would only hope that
they are reporting and urging fair play in the appropriate places. Also,
it would help if they gave us the simple facts and explanations, like
Mitzi did, right here on our list instead of our having to waste the time
we have less and less of, on the Ministry's site.
I am happy to hear that there is a school in Beer Sheva which actually
got the facilities they need. I am not interested in waiting a few years
for the promises to be fulfilled, while I am forced to sit for long hours
at school in the noisy, messy and distracting teacher's room during my
extra hours. Also, being forced to sit at school for 4 hours in the
middle of the day, waiting for the one hour at the end of the day when the
person who did the scheduling stuck a class (for which most of the students
don't bother to come anyway). In this way they have made it virtually
impossible for us to 'charge' our shaot shehiya against meeting hours. A
reasonable system does not start a major change without ironing out the
details beforhand. I'm not talking about minor glitches, but major ones.
Oz and Ofek have been implemented for 3 years now. As far as I can see, no
one is trying to solve the problems. The Ministry and unions have
conveniently given 'responsibility' on how to deal with the problems, to
the individual schools. What if they are not competent enough, or care
enough to do this? I do not think this is fine.
So what is my conclusion from this discussion? I an sure the Ministry
knows what the problems are. They won't do much to solve them unless
forced to. We need to turn to our unions. They should be dealing with
these issues. They shouldn't have allowed the reform to happen in the
first place, but now that they have, they should be doing the job we are
paying them to do. Most of the notices I get from the Irgun are about all
the side benefits, social activities, discounts etc that they offer (which
are mostly questionably benefits). Someone on this list suggested that we
start a new union for English teachers. I think our first step should be a
letter to the unions explaining why we will no longer be paying our dues to
them. Demanding that they give us clear and relevant instructions about
our obligations and recourse to the way we are being treated, reporting on
exactly what and when they are doing to solve the problems. When the first
100 teacers do this, I think they will start to take notice. When the
second 200 stop paying, they might even start to do something.
Renee
First of all, if anyone wants an official answer to a question, s/he
should
write to an official person, respectfully, and not expect all of the
officials to be answering every ( or any) posts on a grass-roots (
wonderful!) public forum. A bit of respect for the position, in my
opinion,
is not too much to ask.
Second, as for the meetings , Renee is right about the "shaot Shehiya".
Hours are tabulated on a monthly basis, so you can spread the extra hours
over the next week or so, and come in late or go home early if your
shehiya
hours are scheduled at the beginning or the end of a day.
Finally, our school joined Oz L'tmura right from the first chance, and
very
nice facilities were built for teachers to work in - sort of work carols
with a comfortable desk chair , a desk and a computer with an internet
connection, plus a few small rooms for working with more than one student
or meeting with a few teachers. I agree that without that, the shehiya
hours would be pretty useless, but I have to say that having them is
really
terrific. Now if they would throw lunch into the bargain, like a normal
workplace, we could really feel like somebody cares about our well-being!
As usual, the reform was started before the structure was ready, but when
everything gets sorted out, I think it will be fine.
Mitzi
Mitzi
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