(live here) – The teachers’ organization announced that from Thursday 2/5/24, classes in the secondary schools will be suspended for two hours, starting at 8:00 am.
In a statement published by the chairman of the teachers’ organization, Ran Erez, he informed the organization’s teachers of the decision to hold the strike and pointed an accusing finger at the minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, claiming that the minister is abandoning education, the students and the teachers, according to him.
Erez also wrote: “The Minister of Finance must understand that we will not allow the privatization of the education system” and added that additional measures are expected to be taken. “We will not allow the teachers to be turned into contract workers,” Erez concluded.
Many parents expressed their protest against the decision of the chairman of the organization to disable the studies, “on the backs of the students”, especially in view of the complicated period due to the war, in which they need every bit of stability and security. According to the parents, the teachers’ organization was expected to do everything in its power to spare the students tension Additional beyond those that are already their share.
