Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Teachers sign mass petition against Hebron field trips



Teachers sign mass petition against Hebron field trips

260 teachers decry decision by Education Ministry, announced last week, to take almost all Jewish students on field trips beyond the Green Line to Jewish heritage sites, saying it is designed to shape their political views • Education Ministry official says the tours allow students to get a firsthand look at the intricacies of the conflict.
Israel Hayom Staff
School trips to Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, holy to both Jews and Muslims, have become a bone of contention among educators.
Less than a week after the Education Ministry caused a political firestorm by expanding a pilot program to send junior and high school pupils on educational field trips to Judea and Samaria, 260 teachers signed a letter Monday saying they would not comply with what they call a “politically motivated” measure, Army Radio reported.
In a letter addressed to Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar, the teachers accuse him of using young Israelis as “unwilling participants and political pawns in political matters, by means of manipulative tactics,” the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported Monday.
The project, which the ministry calls “Touring the Land of the Ancestors,” was introduced last year as a measure meant to bolster Israeli schoolchildren’s Jewish identity, and takes them on field trips to key biblical sites such as Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs as well as other landmarks in Judea and Samaria. The signatories of the letter to Saar accuse the ministry and its head of having a hidden agenda and trying to shape the political views of students by bringing them into “political hot spots.”
The head of the Jerusalem District at the Education Ministry, Meir Shimoni, dismissed the allegations. “I took part in some of the tours; I accompanied the students and I observed them firsthand. They experienced the difficulties and dilemmas of the Shuhada St. (a street in the Hebron city center that runs in both Arab and Jewish neighborhoods) ... and they came back with many questions and a great sense of curiosity.”
According to Jewish tradition, the Cave of the Patriarchs is the burial place of the biblical ancestors of the Jewish people. The site is also holy to Muslims.
Since launching the program in March 2011 some 1,000 students have participated in the tours. Now the government wants to expand the program into the curricula of all Jewish schools. Last week Saar touted the program as an astounding success, saying, “Already at this time it is safe to say that the initiative is progressing beyond our expectations. Thousands of students are visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs, not just from the religious sector but also from the secular sector and that makes this something that I am definitely proud of.”

These teacher should be fired.
Is not Hevron, Bet El, Shiloh, and other places in Judea and Samaria, part of the history of the Jewish people?
So, since it is part of our history, these liberal scum should be fired.
They are seeking to ethnic cleanse our history.
Hear me you liberal scum, you may be ashamed that your forefathers were named Avrham, Yitzhak, Yaacov, Saul, David.
I am proud of my history and ashamed, we have scum like you that are called Jews.
Lastly, let's be clear 260 teacher is not a huge group of teachers, fire all of them .

From Yoni the Blogger

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