Israeli Teachers' Strike entering its 30th day..

Thanks ToJ - how many teachers roughly involved?

You care about a teacher's strike???

Just whose side are you on?

Ever hear Pat Benetar's song, "Hell is for Children"?

It must have been written about how Israeli children are treated by the fascist regime's first line of soldiers - the teachers.

It is the teachers that break children of their spirit, teach the childrean "how to behave", punish and ridicule the children who won't, or can't behave, and teach them nationalism and to hate.

You can't get a teacher's job if you don't follow those guidelines. If, perchance, they make a mistake and hire a teacher who is a human being, that person is fired toute suite - as was my husband from teaching in high school.

He was fired because he encouraged the kids to think and didn't dictate. He didn't punish and he used to conduct classes outside on the grass when the weather was good. Can't have teachers like that in THE SYSTEM. He was, despite the fact that he is an expert in his field who could teach grad students at university, fired after his first school year.

Do you support Social Worker's strikes too?

Or, have you figured out that they are the low-paid agents of the regime whose job it is to keep the people who were crushed in the school system when they were kids down, out and miserable?

D2

Wasn't there already a thread about teachers? Perhaps someone less lazy will drag it up for reference.

Hahahaha

Yes, when we were on Kibbutz he was the only man who worked in the children's houses. The little ones (they were nursery school - kindergarten-aged) themselves and the women who worked with him thought he was great with the kids, and he was happy in his work and fulfilled. But then the sadran (the elected representative on Kibbutz who makes up the work list for a given tenure) put pressure on him to do "man's work". He liked working in the fields, and did it alot, but he really loved working with the children. One of his happiest times on Kibbutz was when he worked in the regional High School library. Kibbutzim typically build one High School for about three very big kibbutzim or a few medium-sized and small ones. It's called a regional High School. My husband worked in the library of one of them for years. During that time he also helped the students prepare for their college entrance exams. He also worked as a madrikh (a person who works with the labor youth movement ) for the Kibbutz Movement. I could tell by the way the youngsters related to him that they loved him and held him in very high esteem. Likewise, the teachers on Kibbutz found him affable and worthy of respect for his work.

So, his ability working with youngsters was tried and true.

The High School he worked in after we left Kibbutz, a state-run school, had no cause to fire him - other than the fact that he was too "democratic" with the students and didn't see his job as whipping them into shape for the army.

LOL. Great idea! How about we establish Permanent Autonomous Zones for the children?

There are a couple of schools in Israel that call themselves "democratic". The youngsters have a wide choice of courses they can elect to take and the classes' decisions are run by a vote. That's the theory. I don't know how they are in practice.

Under any circumstances, a school has to fulfill the state-devised curriculum - and that always involves making them into malleable citizens and order carrying out soldiers.

A few manage to get through the system. They are usually considered "disturbed" or otherwise "miskaynim" (pathetic) by society.

They are usually, in fact, the coolest people.

D2

Mocking laughter??? Huh???

I laughed because the idea of a TAZ for kids delighted me and thought it should be extended!

Comrade, if you think that when people laugh they are mocking you; you have been hanging out with too many agents provacateur who disguise themselves as Anarchists and do mock - in order to make people feel insecure about themselves and get on the defensive, the better to control and manipulate them, as we see so many of them here.

Relax and don't let the people who are playing with people's heads and emotions on the Anarchy boards infiltrate your guts.

When I laugh I laugh in happiness and delight.

People are too precious to be made fun of.

D2

In the case of teachers in Israel striking: I wouldn't care less if they starved to death.

In fact, they'd be doing Israel a service.

They are not workers struggling for better work conditions. They have excellent work conditions as it.

The Israeli school year is only about 200 days long and four - five hours a day long because of their "struggle".

They're paid in full for the days, um, I mean months, that they don't work.

As gov't workers, they also are entitled to bank at the special bank provided for gov't workers and get preferred mortgages, loans, car loans, interest rates...

The Jews in Israel have by far the highest semi-literacy rates of any Jewish community in the world, thanks to their "efforts".

They are state agents and seeing them "struggling" for better work conditions arouses as much pity in my heart as if it was SHaBak or the Mossad "workers", or "social workers" for that matter too.

P.S. I can't remember there was a factory worker strike in Israel. They don't dare, even though they work a shift and a half and still have to get a welfare subsidy to bring them *up* to the poverty line.

I know what I'm talking about. I went to work in a factory to see the conditions.

D2

revol86

Whether the agent is implanted in your head or you are implanted like a "prick" here, is of no consequence.

You and those like you are worthless to the revolution.

All of the Anarchist revolutionaries were great Spirits.

There wasn't a waste of protoplasm among them.

What are you going to do when the revolution comes? Make sarcastic, caustic comments? Make inside jokes? Take a poll?

As I said, useless.

D2

some of your best work.

Banned.

Stop the flaming in here people.