On Hold
Hillel teachers await
board's response.
JULIE WIENER
Stag Writer
espite the proposal that it
make a decision within a
week, the executive corn-
mittee of Hillel Day
School has not yet responded to a Jan.
13 letter from the Hillel Day School
Teachers' Association.
The letter, which followed the
Hillel board's dismissal of veteran
/teacher Shula Fleischer, urged the
board to have an independent corn- •
mittee review the issue of teacher
morale at Hillel.
Complaining of an atmosphere of
"harassment," Teachers' Association
leaders presented the letter to the exec-
utive committee and mailed it to every
Hillel parent. The letter requested par-
ents to express their support by sign-
ing and returning a form enclosed
with the letter.
Hillel President Steven Margolin
said the teachers' proposal for a panel
to review morale will be discussed at
the next board meeting, scheduled for
Feb. 10.
"The executive committee is study-
ing their request and a recommenda-
tion will be given to the board at the
next meeting," said Margolin, adding
that the decision required more than
the week the union had requested.
Teachers' Association President
Malka Littman said, "We find it very
curious and distressing that they are
not treating this serious matter with
more urgency." She described the rela-
tionship between Hillel's administra-
_ti.on and its teachers as a marriage and
said bringing in an independent corn-
mittee would be akin to consulting a
marriage counselor.
Littman said the positive responses
she and her colleagues received from
parents were "beyond our wildest
expectations." She declined to estimate
the number of parents who had indi-
cated their support.
. Fleischer, then president of the
Hillel Day School Teachers'
Association, was dismissed Jan. 5 in
response to recommendations by
Hillel's top administrators. Her case
will eventually go to arbitration, but
her lawyer, Mark Cousens and Hillel's
lawyer, Bob Finkel, have not yet
selected an arbitrator.
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