[etni] standing your ground
- From: Jack Pillemer <jackpil@xxxxxxx>
- To: ETNI posts <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:09:08 +0200
Dear ETNI members
I recently learned that there are some of my Jerusalem colleagues who are
members of the Irgun and yet have been teaching during the strike. The school
management in this particular high school has been sufficiently persuasive, it
seems, in keeping certain Irgun teachers in the classroom and the few that have
supported the struggle by not teaching, have been made to feel rather
uncomfortable - and poorer .
I'd like to publically support those teachers - friends of mine from Bagrut
marking - who despite pressure and unpleasantness have stood their ground.
I imagine those Irgun members who are teaching also can't feel very
comfortable!
Each of us has our own motivation for what we do and I assume any Irgun member
who at this point is still going into classes as if nothing is going on must
have no other option or have reasons which I don't yet understand.
I personally believe that this strike may be the beginning of a turning point
regarding the place of education in the national agenda in the years to come
and despite all the obvious reservations about this or that, I feel every
citizen (including Irgun members) should be out there striking to ensure that
education doesn't continue to be relegated to where it has been.
Jack Pillemer
http://www.geocities.com/jackpillemer
www.schooly.co.il/boyer_english
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