Mama o' the Matrices has been school-shopping: Too many indifferent teachers, too many classrooms with glossy posters instead of the kids' work. And when the kids' stuff was hung up, it was way too uniform. And the biggest strike? teachers mixing interpretive narrative (midrash) with the biblical … [Read more...]
Collective Gifts for Preschoolers–Yes or No?
September 17, 2006 by
I decided go to my daughter's class. It's true, as Sephardilady suggested in the comments, that I could meet the teacher another time, but I would like to see how the teacher and the school present themselves to the parents. So far they seem to have been doing a wonderful job and my daughter … [Read more...]
Back to School, Israel Style
August 19, 2006 by
This post is from 2006, and prices have gone up. The summer vacation is ending in about two weeks. School is supposed to start on September 1, but the students in the north asked to start on Sunday September 3, so in solidarity with them all the schools are going to start then (or so I heard). … [Read more...]
A Tale of Two Schools
June 20, 2006 by
In my well-established national religious neighborhood, we have two national religious, government schools (mamlachti dati) side by side. One consists of only children bussed in from the sephardi, mostly Yemenite neighborhood, and the other only accepts children from the local, Ashkenazi … [Read more...]
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