Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1960 — Page 6

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The National Jewish POST and OPINION

Friday, January 2$, 1961

Suburban Jews Need To Re-Appraise Selves

BALTIMORE (P-O) — 1 Trude Weiss - Rosmarin, distinguished author and lecturer, referred to the 75 per cent of American

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Jewry who live in the suburbs as dwellers in a “guilded ghetto” who are caught in a constant

struggle to “keep up.”

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High Schools Face Critical Problem

By CARL ALBERT HAIFA—A serious crisis today faces high school education in Israel, growing out of a rather complex dispute with the teachers. The situation is grave, with danger that the schools might close down. It would be well, therefore, i f friends abroad received some explanation of the issues involved. All teachers in the country are members Alpert of a Teachers Union, affiliated with the Histaddut. This union represents the teaching profession in all negotiations regarding salary increases, working conditions, promotions, and other matters which are the proper concern of a union. High school teachers, who constitute only 10 per cent of the membership of the union, complain that their interests and requirements are not the same as those of teachers of the lower grades. High school teachers are supposed to have a university education; they are called upon to spend infinitely more time in grading papers and notebooks; the preparation needed for lessons is greater—and they fail to see why their salary scale must necessarily be linked to the scale of teachers in the primary grades. THEIR REQUESTS for special consideration as high school teachers were turned down by the union. It seemed clear to them that the only alternative was to withdraw from the union and form their own bargaining agency, which they proceeded to do. The new Secondary School Teachers Association at once received the support of fully 80 per cent of the pedagogues eligible for membership. Secure in the belief that their cause was just, and confident that no one could question the utter democracy of their action —the freedom of workers to choose the union of their own choice — the laeders of the new Association turned to the Ministry of Education and requested

a hearing on their claims. To their consternation, the Ministry refused to recognize their new union as sole bargaining agent, and insisted that all negotiations could be only through the old body, which most of the high school teachers had already left. The general teachers’ union looked upon the new movement as rebellious, and the union secretary threatened that if it were granted recognition there would be "a disruption of the school system in a way it has never

experienced before.”

THE INDEPENDENT association faced a dilemma. How to dramatize its case and strengthen its bargaining position? Several days of “strike” were called purely for demonstrative purpose, but the teachers had no wish to injure the pupils, who were innocent victims of a jurisdictional dispute. Hence the association adopted a novel “noncooperation policy” with the Ministry of Education and the principals of the high schools. Classes continue normally; lessons are assigned, lectures given, homework graded, the curriculum followed—but the teachers refuse to recognize the authority of the Ministry until their own existence is recognized. They hasten to add that they are not fighting the Histadrut as such; they are willing to have their own Association remain within

the Histadrut.

AT FIRST blush this may sound like children playing games—but to the teachers concerned it is a very serious business. As they correctly point out, there are insufficient qualified high school teachers in Israel to begin with. If. there is not an increase in compensation, and a recognition that a high school teacher is something more than a glorified kindergartener, there is no possibility of attracting

able, educated personnel to th*

teaching profession.

What happens next is a matter for the day to day headlines to report. Will the Ministry of Education relent, and recognize the new association, or will it take several steps of its own to punish the dissidents? Will the teachers stand firmly by their decision, or will they be disorganized by government threat, and drift back into line? And if <he latter should be the case, with the resultant severe blow to the morale of the teachers, will not secondary school education in

Israel be the loser?

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