Courage to Fight and see my Horizon

Courage to Fight and see my Horizon

For Your Attention:
                In this post, I'll address both genders,
so when I use pronouns in one gender, I am aiming  for the both genders.

As in every year, February arrives...yeah :-), and ends, even more yeah... :-) :-)
With the end of February begins the planning of next year's school schedule. yeah.......:-(
As teachers, we have to decide, where, what, and who are we going to teach next year.
For our managers, the school principles it is the same, just from the other side, they must plan a head the school's schedule for next year. In utopia, everything will go as planned and all of the teachers will have good salaries, rest hours between classes, and everything would go as it should.

We do not live in utopia. Building a schedule is tough, even more, when the variables of it change all the time. There is only one constant, which the principles can rely on, there will be pupils in the school boundaries between 8 AM to 16 PM. The principals do not  leave it for chance, and try to get as more quality teachers as they can .

But, in fact, in any teaching position, it is well known that there are flukes and mishaps. The latter usually occurs, when the teacher cannot take his or her place because he or his child are sick or something from this order.  Sickness in teachers appears usually from the stress he is in. For this matter at hand, and much more , the ministry of Education advised new reform in order to help teachers unwind, and relieve the work load that causes stress.

                Courage to Change and New Horizon (Oz La'Tmura and Ofek Hadassh) stands for the reform names, one at high schools and the other is for the elementary schools, respectively.  Those reforms aim to change the way teachers' positions are perceived in the general population of Israel, and reflect the change especially in pupil's private tutoring hours, i.e. the hours every pupil gets individually from his teacher.

                The reforms aim for the best, but in the mean time picks up on the way some bad habits. The goals of the reform are to make the teacher position a desirable one, by offering more money at the beginning. The teacher's role shifts around asking the teacher bend over backwards. While trying to achieve more hours for the pupils the teacher are obligated to sign in and sign out the attendance clock, and his home hours are not counted in for the for the salary.

I CALL ALL TEACHER  ALL OVER ISRAEL TO THINK BEFORE SIGNING FOR ANY SCHOOL THAT MAKES YOU SIGN THOSE REFORM 

                When a teacher decides to work in a school, he does not take in consideration that his environment must be free from stress related REFORMS. With those reforms, schools are being turned into factories, and we must stop it !!!

Waiting for you input

Yosef