Career Bureaucrat Defers To Career Politician On How To Raise Your Kids

“There are some things beyond even my purview,” conceded the fifteen-year government employee.

Jerusalem, October 12 – A mid-level functionary in the government office that oversees education in the country acknowledged today her limited capacity and training vis-à-vis the schooling and rearing of your offspring, given the narrow perspective and scarce experience the job provides her in that field, and that she therefore relies for more professional input and decisions in that field from her superior, a lifelong vote-chaser and power-seeking, horse-trading opportunist with no background in education, either.

Roshka Tann, who serves as Acting Chairwoman of the Ministry of Education Subcommittee on Textbook Review Schedules, admitted Tuesday that her educational background in Administration and her career in this ministry, and before that, in the Ministry of the Interior, has left her with a partial understanding at best of what is best for your children at various levels of the education system, a fact that forces her, in the interest of your children’s welfare and development, to leave certain policy and content decisions to the more capable hands of more senior bureaucrats who have spent more time pushing papers and playing office politics, and, if necessary, all the way up to Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Biton herself, who has also spent zero time behind a teacher’s desk or pursuing pedagogical knowledge.

“There are some things beyond even my purview,” conceded the fifteen-year government employee. “For those weighty questions I often have to consult my colleagues, or maybe kick things up a level or two in the ministry so that others with more robust or diverse background can give due consideration to all the issues involved. When even our vast bureaucratic experience proves insufficient, at least we can call on the senior political echelon within the ministry, who can bring to bear their own expertise in backroom deals, back-stabbing, spin, brown-nosing, and other relevant spheres of endeavor.”

As a case in point, Ms. Tann cited that of a proposed high school curriculum and reading list up for review within the ministry, about which several media reports had brought parental concerns to light. “The thing with parents is, they don’t have the careers of the teachers upmost in their minds,” she explained. “So in those parents’ skewed view, the ministry and the teachers were supposed to do more work to ensure that the materials met some standard that those people, who are just parents, and what do they even know about kids, decided was relevant. Fortunately, the Teachers’ Union lobbied the right people in our ranks and nothing came of it. I mean, can you imagine asking teachers to do more work when they only get two months of paid vacation every summer and it’s next to impossible to fire them regardless of performance?”

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