Comments on: BLUEPRINT TO “EXCELLENCE” UPDATE http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/ Protecting the Quality of a Fine Education Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:47:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ivory http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4789 Ivory Thu, 15 May 2008 03:18:04 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4789 I left last year, with the other 30+. I went to another school. It was good for a time, then four of us were called into the office (at the new school, I was the only Hillel "grad") in the last week and told we were not coming back. Oh, and my reviews were superb - I am just not a socialist or a humanist....Pits city. And now it is happening at Hillel, again! I loved Hillel when I was there, it was so good - then. Teachers felt respected, discussion was encouraged...I have tried to keep track of my friends from Hillel but all my e-mails got bounced right back even with the new ones...and finding time to call is hard with the eighty hour weeks (work, family, publishing...)... I left last year, with the other 30+.
I went to another school. It was good for a time, then four of us were called into the office (at the new school, I was the only Hillel “grad”) in the last week and told we were not coming back. Oh, and my reviews were superb – I am just not a socialist or a humanist….Pits city.
And now it is happening at Hillel, again!
I loved Hillel when I was there, it was so good – then. Teachers felt respected, discussion was encouraged…I have tried to keep track of my friends from Hillel but all my e-mails got bounced right back even with the new ones…and finding time to call is hard with the eighty hour weeks (work, family, publishing…)…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4777 Anonymous Tue, 13 May 2008 12:23:46 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4777 Does it really matter? He and the school have bigger issues. Does it really matter? He and the school have bigger issues.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4775 Anonymous Tue, 13 May 2008 01:57:05 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4775 Doesn't "higid" mean "to speak" from the root word of hagadah? Doesn’t “higid” mean “to speak” from the root word of hagadah?

]]> By: Observer http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4774 Observer Mon, 12 May 2008 23:09:31 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4774 Anyone read the last KOL HILLEL? Druin writes: "The name of the book we use at the seder table is the Hagadah. The primary reason why we call it a Hagadah is because it comes from the word הגד which means to tell. Doesn't anyone find that a little scary? Doesn't it bother anyone that הגד is not a word? What state is the school in when the "Rabbinic Dean" does not know proper Hebrew? Anyone read the last KOL HILLEL?

Druin writes:

“The name of the book we use at the seder table is the Hagadah. The primary reason why we call it a Hagadah is because it comes from the word הגד which means to tell.

Doesn’t anyone find that a little scary?

Doesn’t it bother anyone that הגד is not a word?

What state is the school in when the “Rabbinic Dean” does not know proper Hebrew?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4753 Anonymous Mon, 05 May 2008 21:32:13 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4753 It makes us all sick. Orwellian double take and euphemisms at their best brought to you by the propaganda spin masters of the PR dept. It makes us all sick.

Orwellian double take and euphemisms at their best brought to you by the propaganda spin masters of the PR dept.

]]> By: Marc Mermelstein http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4748 Marc Mermelstein Mon, 05 May 2008 15:04:51 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4748 Right-sized? In the words of the famous Jim Norton, "uch." The idea of right-sizing is a sickening display of political correctness. Rather than saying what they truly mean of we don't want non-believers in our school, they "right-size" it. How about just saying we've shitcanned good teachers because we could. The insincerity makes me sick. Right-sized? In the words of the famous Jim Norton, “uch.” The idea of right-sizing is a sickening display of political correctness. Rather than saying what they truly mean of we don’t want non-believers in our school, they “right-size” it. How about just saying we’ve shitcanned good teachers because we could. The insincerity makes me sick.

]]> By: Food for Thought http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4721 Food for Thought Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:23:18 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4721 yes, there should be their, sorry yes,
there should be their, sorry

]]> By: Food for Thought http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4720 Food for Thought Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:22:34 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4720 A school should be judged based on its teachers and where there students metriculate. I don't know if your teachers are qualified, but the list of schools the graduates of 08 are attending are not impressive. You are a private school, not of excellence. A school should be judged based on its teachers and where there students metriculate. I don’t know if your teachers are qualified, but the list of schools the graduates of 08 are attending are not impressive. You are a private school, not of excellence.

]]> By: Longtime Anonymous http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4719 Longtime Anonymous Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:29:39 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4719 No need to be insulting. If everything and everyone is so bad, just move on. No need to be insulting. If everything and everyone is so bad, just move on.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4718 Anonymous Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:30:15 +0000 http://www.savehillel.com/2008/04/blueprint-to-excellence-update-3/#comment-4718 The majority of parents are ignorant as to the true quality of education their children are now being offered. How do they know that the quality is now suffering? They believe that you get what you pay for. And since they're paying a lot, they assume they're getting a lot. Little do they know that there has been a revolving door of mediocre and failed teachers in the high school this year. Little do they know or seem to care that Judaics are no longer a priority. Many of the current Hillel parents don't really seem to value education much anyhow. They figure that if their kids go to a school with Jewish kids , then they don't have to rub elbows with public school kids. Upon graduation, their kids can take over the family business and so it doesn't really matter if their children get a degree from sub-par universities like FIU. The current parent body is not the academic elite of the past. The current parent body may be well-meaning but most are a bunch of ignoramuses. The ones who have a clue pulled their kids out long ago or would do so now except for the fact that their children only have a few years left and these parents are not about to uproot their kids in their final years. However, they are telling young parents that Hillel is not a good bet. The board miscalculated, but they're so dumb they don't even realize that their poor decisions have caused the demise of the school. A demise doesn't happen overnight. Rome did not fall overnight. But the wheels have been set in motion and the board will not reverse the direction of destruction they have steered the school into. We are all very sad. This marks the official 1 year anniversary in remembrance of the final nails hammered into the coffin that was once Hillel. The coffin is hereby sealed. RIP. The majority of parents are ignorant as to the true quality of education their children are now being offered.

How do they know that the quality is now suffering? They believe that you get what you pay for. And since they’re paying a lot, they assume they’re getting a lot.

Little do they know that there has been a revolving door of mediocre and failed teachers in the high school this year.

Little do they know or seem to care that Judaics are no longer a priority.

Many of the current Hillel parents don’t really seem to value education much anyhow. They figure that if their kids go to a school with Jewish kids , then they don’t have to rub elbows with public school kids. Upon graduation, their kids can take over the family business and so it doesn’t really matter if their children get a degree from sub-par universities like FIU.

The current parent body is not the academic elite of the past. The current parent body may be well-meaning but most are a bunch of ignoramuses.

The ones who have a clue pulled their kids out long ago or would do so now except for the fact that their children only have a few years left and these parents are not about to uproot their kids in their final years. However, they are telling young parents that Hillel is not a good bet.

The board miscalculated, but they’re so dumb they don’t even realize that their poor decisions have caused the demise of the school.

A demise doesn’t happen overnight. Rome did not fall overnight. But the wheels have been set in motion and the board will not reverse the direction of destruction they have steered the school into.

We are all very sad. This marks the official 1 year anniversary in remembrance of the final nails hammered into the coffin that was once Hillel. The coffin is hereby sealed. RIP.

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