----- Original Message ----- From: laurie ornstein - laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: laurie's Thanks to Dr. Rachel Segev-Miller for pointing out the Ministry's directive of using books for at least 5 years. However, many schools have special book-loaning programs. These are subject to the budget constraints we find everywhere in the system and beyond. We are forced to use old books for more than 5 years in many cases. We were allowed to change only 2 different textbooks this school year, for the entire school! Literature, of course, was not even considered. And as things are going, I doubt there will be much change in the near future. Laurie ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------