Legal actions against Ministry of Education, anyone?

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Boaz,
The Israel Ministry of Education doesn't have any schools.
The schools are owned by what the Ministry calls the "baalut", usually 
a city or local council or Ottoman Society ("amutah"), or private company. 
The ministry sets policy in general and provides money to pay some of the 
salaries, but is ambivalent about what software any particular school uses 
(except for the fact that the Ministry might offer free licenses for some 
commonly used software).

So your legal action should be directed against the "baalut", probably 
your own local council or municipality.

  - yba


On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:42:11 +0200
> From: Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland at gmail.com>
> To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Legal actions against Ministry of Education, anyone?
> 
> Hi,
> First, just to give a quick update on the thread I initiated here lately (titled "Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats") and that still
> lives on. Below the bullet list update is the actual content for this message:
>
>  *  Basically, my meeting with the school principal was more of an acquaintance meeting then anything else. The new school site that replaced its
>     (terrible) predecessor works much better on my Chrome/Linux system. The site even have an internal online Word editor so I can view the weekly schedule with all
>     the "nice" images within with little problem. Obviously, not all is so bright - read on... .
>  *  Just now, when I looked at that site trying to open the weekly schedule, it downloads it to me instead of showing online with the wonderful online Word tool so
>     I'm back at square one in that sense. Obviously, until a more thorough solution will be implemented we'll always chase our own tail fighting silly usage and
>     other problems (probably the teacher should have uploaded the document differently or use a Word version compatible with the online Word engine. You're
>     imagination is always limited in comparison to what reality will bring about...).
> In the mentioned thread some of you mentioned Ofek system and guess what - we were referred to it recently. Only for enriching purposes etc so no immediate fire to
> distinguish luckily. I've checked that site. They have an official "requirements" document that mentions the dependency on Windows and IE (BTW both are needed.
> Chrome/Windows will not be good they say. Classic isn't it?). The document dates back to May 2011 and they say there that they work to make the site compatible with
> other browsers (they don't mention compatibility with other OS).
> 
> I'm sick of that. 
> 
> I wanted to know if anyone have ever attempted some legal actions against specific school or some other higher level entity against this discriminating situation
> that is clearly not going to change  soon without decisive action.
> IANAL, but it looks like a rather sure bet to win such a case isn't it? After all, its the "compulsory and free education laws" context that we operate under and
> under such laws the official policy cannot force you to spend hundreds of NIS (at minimum) to be able to do educational activity that's supposed to be free. Further
> more, IMHO the official policy cannot even "recommend" spending those NIS as its clear discrimination (its not mere few NIS, its hundreds of them, at least).
> 
> I wanted to learn if such attempts have been made in the past or if anyone has made some work in that direction (and can share his/her "interim findings").
> 
> Thanks for the feedback,
> Boaz.
> 
> 
>

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