Here is another interesting article that was in haaretz friday. Of course we would like less drop outs, but many schools (such as my ort school - the only school in our development town) don't offer vocational studies - and not everyone has the ability to do a Bagrut. Maybe there is a solution on the way? Panel proposes ideas for stanching school dropout rate http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/994580.html ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------