From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: The Wave in as much as a few people have asked me what the problem is with telling them to buy a book abroad, i am posting this to the list. the school can suggest but can't TELL kids to buy something abroad. not all parents have an international credit card. not all parents feel safe buying things on the internet. at least at our school that is how it is. sara g wrote: > BD is wonderful. but i don't know if we can tell kids to buy a book from > abroad (even if it is cheaper than in israel.) > > when my class had to but a book that was hard to find here, i suggested > they look at betterworldbooks or book depository, rather than amazon. but i > made sure they (and the parents) understood that i was not telling them to > order from abroad.