Hi All, I?m sure I?m not the only one who found a very unpleasant surprise in my cubby at school today. Perhaps you haven?t realized yet what hit you. Here?s the story: The Ministry has made a ruling that teachers will now have to produce a special ?File? for each LD kid who applies for certain accomodations for taking the Bagrut exam. You will find a link to the booklet of instructions and explanations (20 pages in Hebrew ? pages 8-15 are the forms for English) on the Min of Ed website under ?news?. The link is <http://cms.education.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/072E4999-2B61-4A96-993E-424FA9103A 9A/136803/ldguidelines12.doc> äðçéåú ìâáé äúàîåú ááçéðú äáâøåú áàðâìéú ? úùò"á <http://cms.education.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/072E4999-2B61-4A96-993E-424FA9103A 9A/136804/ldguidelines13.doc> LD Guidelines 2011 - 2012 . The forms for English teachers require dozens of hours of work ? meetings with school counselor, gathering information about the pupil and what other help they have received, preparing different types of exams to test the same information in different modes (oral, listening, with tapes, with computers,? etc) , testing the pupils in these different modes, making copies of each test, correcting them, analyzing the results, comparing the results from different modes, and worst of all ? writing reports of what you have observed . I wrote a letter to Nurit Valenci (professional dept) Irgun Hamorim and urge you to investigate and write to them (and Histadrut HaMorim) as well. This is beyond the Last Straw!! Renee Wahl