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Principals Reject Education Ministry Efforts to Apply Salary Ranking System to Teachers at Chareidi Institutions
by Betzalel Kahn

A decision by Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah to call on principals not to consent to any curricular changes and not to change their government status from "exempt" to any other status is making waves among principals throughout Eretz Yisroel.

In meetings with various principals last week, it was decided to reject all pressure and enticements from the Education Ministry to introduce the concept of teacher training in the chareidi system by determining budget levels and according to the ranking system employed at government and "recognized" schools. ("Exempt" schools are the traditional chadorim, and "recognized" schools are those like Bais Yaakov and Chinuch Atzmai that are more fully integrated into the regular Israeli education system.)

According to the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah decision, "Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah demands that all principals of talmudei Torah classified as `exempt institutions' not alter the status to `recognized but unofficial.' "

A letter written several months ago by Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, shlita, reads, "And now a cry is being heard to alter the way passed on to us by changing the status of talmudei Torah to `recognized institutions,' which would be liable, chas vesholom, to bring about the involvement of secular education figures at places of learning for tinokos shel beis rabbon. Furthermore, on the fringe of the camp are those who would like to send melamdim to advanced courses sponsored by the Education Ministry. At this time it is incumbent upon us to state that whoever makes any changes in the accepted order practiced at the talmudei Torah heretofore will be held accountable [in Shomayim] . . ."

According to directives by gedolei Yisroel, it has been decided not to make any changes and United Torah Jewry MKs have been asked to make every effort to accept budgeting only according to existing practices, categorically refusing to introduce a foreign spirit into "exempt" institutions, in order to preserve their independence and to preclude the danger of any outside control over the character of the teaching staff at educational institutions run in purity.

Rejecting various incentives presented to lure them into making changes, principals sent a clear message to the Education Ministry to stop trying to interfere with chareidi educational institutions.

 

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