Shirley Rimon Bracha, Director of the Education Department in the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, was interviewed today (Tuesday) on Anat Davidov’s show “Where’s the Money” on 103FM, and commented on the severe shortage of teachers in the education system, which may hinder the start of the next school year.
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“In special education, this is our biggest shortcoming. We lack 26 female educators, 22 kindergarten teachers, and several hundred student assistants, which is for both allergic children and integrated children,” said Rimon Bracha at the beginning of the interview, “in special education, if the learning model does not change as we proposed, we proposed A choice to allow a shortening of the school day, so that we only need one kindergartner per day instead of two, a shortening of two hours. This allows for the full opening of all kindergartens and schools. This is a difficult, unpopular decision, which hurts families. That is why we thought it was right to publish the proposal a month ago so that families We will organize.”
“In the normal schools we still have a shortage, we reduced it from a few hundred, now we stand at a shortage of 50, elementary school has a shortage of 30,” she added, “we did hard work. There were also compromises, I say this with sadness and pain, the problem is strategic for the beginning of the year , a country that needs to look at who the people are who come to education and why, and turn this profession into a prestigious and almost unattainable one.”
“There can also be inexperienced people, certainly without a teaching certificate, and this can also be a teacher who the school principal didn’t think was suitable for education, but who had no choice but to become an educator. We have quite a few schools where one educator will take two classes, receive double compensation, but the money is Not the story,” stated the Director of the Education Department at the Tel Aviv Municipality.
Finally, Rimon Bracha said that “We only did it by agreement, the principals of the schools did a nice process with their staff. Veteran educators agreed out of a mission simply to come help the children. We set up a whole set of learning coaches here that the municipality pays them, we put a lot on it Good millions from the municipality’s budget to help the educators, the teachers in the overcrowded classes. They enter the schools and will also help in dividing the classes, taking challenging children, diversifying the teaching content, we for our part did what we could.”
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Shani Romano 103FM