The court gave him back his teaching certificate. What did the students give him?
Meir Baruchin was fired from his teaching job in Rishon LeZion, and then fired again from his job at a school in Petach Tikva. The court said he could go back to the classroom. That announcement quite demoralized me. How students greeted him upon his arrival the first day he was back lifted my spirits: […]
Meir Baruchin: Why was this teacher arrested!
I first wrote about Meir Baruchin in 2020, when he was fired for telling high school students in his civics classes that they should not enlist in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Two days ago, on 9 November, he was arrested. The charge, according to Haaretz, the only English language news site to cover the […]
What do students learn when teachers express their opinions in class?
There is a new update that I wrote since Baruchin’s arrest on 9 November. You can read it here. Let me update my first article on this topic that was originally published in February 2020. It was triggered by the firing of civics and history teacher Meir Baruchin. I do not know what Baruchin is […]