“Yom Assal, yom bassal” was one of the first expressions I ever learned in Arabic. “One day honey, one day onion.”  So with the teachers’ strike the kids are getting used to having school every other day.  The school year is almost over, the kids are learning less and less and now – the government is still negotiating with the teachers about salaries.  

Nobody wants to be a teacher anymore anyway.  They don’t see it as a calling – as I came to see it after many years of struggling to stand in front of an audience.  And why should they think of it as a calling when they are not considered important enough to be paid a living wage?