From: "aviva shapiro" - shapiroaviva@xxxxxxxxx Subject: changes in LD guidelines .. This morning I read over all the new updates on anglit.net and... The new LD guidelines have upset me. .. Sorry to disagree with you Nira but, there are some kids who actually need both listening to a tape and recording their answers and they have an extremely diffiicult time functioning with two tape recorders (what is a tape recorder??) Maybe it's a pain in the neck for the teachers but if the kids who need it don't get it , they are being hurt and penalized unfairly. I would like to know if the neutral tester has been abolished in the Hebrew tests. Does anyone know ?? If not, then in my opinion it is not fair that only in English the new accommodation, which was implemented ONLY last spring should suddenly be abandoned. It is not clear to me why it was changed so soon after it was implemented and as a professional I would like to understand why changes are made one day and then canceled the next. This confuses not only the teachers but the pupils. As for the new letter for the Oral exam (for requesting an Oral exam) , this is definitely an improvement. But still in these troubled days of a strike I find it hard to fathom yet another change . If the Winter bagrut is canceled then my students who had neutral readers last Spring and who were to complete their last module this winter will suffer and are being doubly punished. If a change has to be made (and I would like to know why) then it should be implemented only for those students who were not given permission to get it for the last exam. Change is inevitable, but every year.. ?? Concerned , Aviva ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - www.etni.org ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------