Wednesday, October 09, 2002

This is brave, but is it wise?
…classroom time devoted to the events of October 2000 will soon be incorporated in secondary school curricula for students in Arab language schools in Haifa and northern regions.

[…] Tirosh asked teachers and principals to encourage students to "express their anger, pain, frustration, disappointment and anxiety about the situation." The new initiative would provide room for "an array descriptions of reality provided by teachers, pupils and parents, all based on different standpoints."


Although this intiative could easily serve as a boomerang, having the opposite result of that hoped for, the Ministry of Education is going ahead with it. I think this says something about the fairness and openness with which the Ministry regards the Arab students.