“Israeli” Teachers Paid for Military Recruitment

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"Israel" is encouraging and offering bonuses to high school teachers who succeed in motivating students to do their army service. The move has sparked a wave of criticism of the Ministry of Education.
The initiative by the Ministry of Education that circulated in schools last year outlined the new policy of granting end of year bonuses to full-time teachers in "Israel's" schools based on "achievements in learning", "social achievements", and "achievements in values".

The top 40 percent of schools with a "high rate of enlistment for military, national or civil service" will receive funds to award their teachers with bonuses, according to the circular obtained by the Christian Science Monitor.
Those ranked among top ten percent will receive funds to grant bonuses in the amount of $2,160, while an equivalent of $1,620 will be paid for the next 10 percent.

"Educating to prepare for the army and to encourage enlistment comes at the expense of regular education, which is meant to educate for democracy and citizenship," Sharaf Hassan, educational director for the Association for Civil Rights in "Israel" told the Monitor.

"The ministry of education is taking "Israel" in a more militaristic, more nationalistic, more xenophobic, and more chauvinistic direction. It's not education, it's a sort of indoctrination," said the former education minister Yossi Sarid.

Source: Russia Today, edited by moqawama.org