[HANASHIR:6942] Re: Salaries and titles

[Carol Anderson <caanders...>]

We have a small religious school 9 kids this year ages 4-12. There are 2
teachers (myself and another mom) and the student rabbi who will help 12
times a year.
The teachers do not get paid but I am hoping the board will pay my way to
Hava Nashira next year or CAJE.  I do it  because no one else would and the
younger kids were just running around the social hall while the student
rabbi worked with the pre bar and bat mitzvah students. I thought these
kids can learn the alef bet, some prayers and some songs. I ordered books
and just started. I feel like I am reinventing the wheel every year and I
always wonder if our kids are learning what they should. But, I love it, I
love to watch them learn and yesterday when a first grader asked to do the
alef bet song and led it himself I was so proud of him.

Carol Anderson
volunteer religious school director, teacher, song leader, and I lead
services 3 times this summer when we had no Rabbi.
Temple B'nai Israel
23 families


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