Posted on 02/08/2015 3:51:43 PM PST by Rusty0604
Thousands of parents nationwide are up in arms over a law that makes it mandatory to send all children from age 32 months to pre-nursery schools that are either state operated or state-approved, starting this year.
The law has existed on paper since 1984, but only enforced for ages 5 and up. Following the recommendations filed by the Trajtenberg Committee, which was formed following the massive leftist-organized “social justice” protests of 2011, it was decided to enforce it for ages 3-4. It conforms with leftist ideals of collective education in state institutions, with the nuclear family taking a back seat.
The upside for parents is that preschools are subsidized by the state. One of the downsides, which they are now discovering, is that the pre-nursery schools are going to be very crowded – with 35 children per class, and a staff of one teacher and one assistant for each class.
The Labor party and Yesh Atid support enlarging the staffs of the pre-nursery school classes to three, by adding a second assistant, as part of their platforms. Kulanu, which includes Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, supports "looking into the possibility" of adding a second assistant. Likud and Jewish Home do not seem to have a platform policy on the matter.
Activists charge that private pre-nursery schools will have to pay the government large amounts of money in order to receive state certification, and that most of them will be forced to close.
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Two adults for every 35 three year olds?
I found it interesting that the parents were upset about the conditions of the schools, but not about the fact that the gov’t is whisking the toddlers away from families so young.
Rotted, stinking Marxist garbage, in Israel no less.
Socialism has always been a major part of Israeli society. For decades, all of the country's leaders came from kibbutzim, which are run on a model of pure communism.
I worked with a Jewish man; he was a communist and very proud of it. His parents were immigrants from Russia. His brother lives in Israel.
“Two adults for every 35 three year olds?”
Total insanity!
As any mother would tell you.
They’re not even 3, more like 2 3/4.
This is a ridiculous law. It needs to be changed.
I’m glad it is in Israel and not here.
And that's probably the largest scale that communism can operate successfully.
Communism with a will, in service of a shared ideal, isn't all that different from the community that might exist in a religious organization. What's the problem with a voluntary commune? It's imposed from above, institutionalized Communism that's awful. As for Israel, that kibbutz enthusiasm lasted for a generation or so, then faded somewhat, I understand.
Coming soon to the American neighborhood, gradually, gradually.
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