From the Liveblog of
Monday, September 9, 2024
Very few high school students return to class as union calls off strike in midnight message
Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel
“Only a few students” showed up to class today, an Education Ministry source tells The Times of Israel, after the teachers union called off a high school strike with a midnight announcement.
The last-minute timing of the announcement caught teachers, parents and students by surprise. Last week, highly publicized remarks by Secondary Schools Teachers Association head Ran Erez indicated that the strike could continue past the October Jewish holiday season.
The morning is “a big mess,” a ministry official tells the Walla news site, as the few students who do arrive find out that their friends aren’t there, and then leave themselves. Because the announcement “went out around midnight, some didn’t see it until the morning,” the official says.
