State education officials are concerned over the numbers, showing over the past decade; state secular public schools show almost no increase in students. Religious public schools increased by 11%. Chareidim and Arabs on the other hand show significantly larger increases in the number of students, signaling Zionist education is losing ground rapidly.
State education officials are concerned, since in their viewpoint the chareidi and Arab sector education is inferior to that of the regular public school curriculum.
Figures Encompass the period from Sept. 2000 – 2010 for elementary schools
State secular public schools show an increase of 0.3%.
State religious public schools up by 11%.
Arab schools up by 37%.
Chareidi schools up by 57%.
As such, the number of students in what is viewed as “non-Zionist educational institutions” represents almost half of the nation’s student population in elementary schools. The information is part of the annual report released by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel.
In most of the OECD member nations students receive less school hours than in Israel, but nevertheless, 17 of those nations show higher achievement scores among elementary school students in mathematics and science.
The report adds that on the average, the scores of Arab and chareidi students in these areas is lower than students from Third World nations, adding the chareidi elementary school students, representing 20% of the nation’s elementary school population, do not take part in international achievement exams.
The report refers back to the issue of ‘core subjects’ citing that chareidi schools stop secular education in the eighth grade.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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3 Responses
1. About half the “core” subjects a little better than political indoctrination, and aren’t a good basis for transnational comparison.
2. Given that the good Jews in Israel’s booming economy are limited to seculars (or people who know to live a secular Euro-American lifestyle – a lifestyle we reject as disgusting), there is little reason for non-zionists to embrace an educational program that is a dead end. To get the good jobs, a Hareidi has to prove his ability in, for example, math, Ivrit, English and being hiloni.
3. The demographics suggest the zionist experiment is doomed, and sooner they realize the need to transition to a Jewish state, the better off they will be.
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Prove himself in Math, Ivrit, English, Technology,Work Ethic and Team Cooperation.
@akuperma: “To get the good jobs, a Hareidi has to prove his ability in, for example, math, Ivrit, English and being hiloni.”
How many Israeli chareidim do you know who do indeed have usable skills, are *not* demanding special separated work places without women and with separate eating areas and onsite minyanim, are *not* demanding to get all sorts of days off which others do not get (Purim, chol hamoed etc), and are willing to be part of the real, serious working world?
I know very few. Israeli chareidim on average have a view that they are entitled to all sorts of special benefits and arrangements. Well, they’re not. You’re no different from anyone else. If a chareidi person has the same education, skills, demands and expectations – he will have a very good chance of finding work.
This is most definitely true in the field in which I work (IT). Ashkenazim, mizrachim, Israeli Arabs, religious and secular – everyone is equal if you have the knowledge, skills and motivation. Plain fact is there are basically almost no chareidim who really want to work.
If some chareidi from Bnei Brak goes to a special chareidi college in Bnei Brak, gets an IT certificate from there, and then starts looking for a job, demanding that he should not have to work with women, that he will get all important days off – yep, he’s going to be out of luck.
If he’s willing to go to a normal regular place of education, get a serious education, start off in some low-level job working with secular girls, Russian non-Jews and Israeli Arabs, and he’s willing to work whenever the company needs him to work (aside from Shabbat and Yom Tov), he WILL find a job and he WILL be successful.