Comments on: No School On Shushan Purim

By: shmerel shapiro

shmerel shapiro — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:45:26 +0000

Bentzy18 i don’t know where you get your info from but the focused attention span of a child is approximately between 8 and 45 secounds long. I guess you dropped out of high school before your teachers got up to that I don’t know where you get any of your info as a matter of a fact

By: Bentzy18

Bentzy18 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:45 +0000

shmerel shapiro it is sad how you are so quick to mock and degrade those who are building up the next generation of Klal Yisroel. In my heart I hope you are really some high school drop out who is looking to blame the Yeshiva system for your poor childhood. The Average Mechanech/teacher works more hours per day then your typical 9-5 job (most will be holding down 2 jobs plus tutoring) work on Sundays (between 30 – 40 per year) and have to use the Summer time to work for a reduced rate to make up for the salary that they will not be getting. While many get a nice 10 mid winter break there are many that get a 4 day weekend. (take a look at public school and see how much time they get between winter break , spring break, holiday time etc..) Plus I don’t know what Rebbiem you had, but the stress load in chinuch is much greater. Kids are more brazen then ever, parents demands are often unrealistic (not all but enough to make things hard)and now must compete with a mind of a child that has been trained to not focus on anything more than 15 minutes.

By: nebech

nebech — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:31:40 +0000

if you actually read the megillah you would see that esther asked for a second day of yom tov
so both days really are purim
so we should have school the first day
according to you
exept that the fact is that the mitzvah on purim is mishteh
vsimcha

By: bugnot

bugnot — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:33:19 +0000

#54, computers and blackberries are the only jobs I’m talking about? (not that they are as easy as you think.) What about doctors, lawyers, warehouse shleppers, and so on. I’m not disputing if teaching is hard or not, it just doesn’t deserve a category of it’s own. There are many jobs that are harder even.

#55, go ask any frum employer who runs a business were all his staff is frum, men and ladies, if he closes down the day after Succos. All emplyes make sure they are back or have to file for a vacation day. Almost everyone can make it to work first thing the day after Succos if they need to.

By: keep quiet

keep quiet — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:58 +0000

i am not here to pasken or decide but i know one thing out of 12 months a year i reckon only 8 months is school

By: benuri

benuri — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:26:27 +0000

when I was a bochur in pre-historic times (45 years ago) we usually had Yeshiva on Shushan Purim

By: miriam kahan

miriam kahan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:07:12 +0000

Wait-soon they will have two weeks off to “help for Pesach” School should be 6 days a week (like in the olden days)

By: cccr

cccr — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:34:38 +0000

Obviously, you don’t wear a shtreimel, or you would know it is YOm TOv.

In any case, I would not have managed to get the kids out of the house on time yesterday, never mind the kids. They were able to sleep late, B”H, and today were back to normal. Part of life.

By: tzippi

tzippi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:26:23 +0000

To Bugnot, re the day after Succos: don’t know how many people – including faculty – travel to family for yom tov in your community.

By: tomim tihye

tomim tihye — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:45:35 +0000

Are you comparing sitting in front of a computer or blackberry to standing in front of a class of live children whose attention you must keep for hours while trying to meet their emotional and educational needs??

ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON!!

The main difference, should you require clarification, is that at the office you are basically focused on yourself, and in the classroom, you had better NOT be focused on yourself!