Taking it to the streets

November 18, 2007 - 4:22 PM by

We’re 30 plus days into the junior high/high school teachers strike, with no end in sight. I’ve been lucky with my teens – one has almost a half day of classes every day, and the other has daily volleyball practice. So both of them have to get out of bed, something many students around the country haven’t done much of in the last month.

The plight of the teachers has resulted in one encouraging development – solidarity throughout the land! Saturday night in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people came to support the teachers in their demands against the government.

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Cynics claim that many of the attendees were students there for the ample musical entertainment, or looking for any reason to get out those beds. Either way, it looks like the teachers have claimed the inside track of underdog in this struggle. The question is, are we headed into the main stretch or are we still in the first turn?

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