Education Minister Piron told not to come to graduation
The management of the Kiryat Ono Academic College's campus in Jerusalem announced, Sunday, that there will be no guest speeches at its commencement exercises, including one that had been scheduled to be delivered by Education Minister Shai Piron. Graduates in the college's hareidi-religious law and business-adminstration programs had to threatened not to attend if Rabbi Piron spoke, citing what they called his fighting against the Torah world and forcing changes of lifestyle on the next generation.
In announcing the decision, the college said, "Parties with agendas, most of them off the hareidi campus, chose to exploit the ceremony for awarding degrees to earn political capital at the expense of the students." The management statement said, "We will not allow a handful of hareidi deal makers to harm the festive character of the event and put a stain on the whole graduating class."I'm not sure I understand the last sentence, but I can definitely understand why Haredim - even law and business school graduates - would not want Piron there.
This is what most of the non-Haredi world doesn't get. Even those Haredim who leave full-time Torah study and go out to work are likely to put their children into the system. They're not leaving the system because they disdain Torah study (God forbid). They are leaving it because they need to support their families and have already studied Torah for as long as they believe themselves to be financially able. That is often 10 years or more post-high school.
Labels: Haredim, Shai Piron, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:07 PM
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I cut out a front page article from yesterday's LA Times saying (buried on the 2nd page of the article) that 85% of people showing up at "community college" need remedial reading instruction. They are trying to have them do it as online classes, but only half are completing the course and only 30% of entering students end up getting their 2-yr associates degree or technical certification. And the By-Line writer says it is because the online classes are defective. And when you get down to it, no one in California cares enough to say anything about the marcuse marxist oppression of the marxist masses. Intimidated and lessened people are required for the Progressives to sieze and maintain power. That's what is important to them.
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