**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** Sorry Batya but that's the way that this government has decided to mould our education system into a copy of the good old US of A. The haves and have nots. The fact that light years before anyone else the kibbutz movement decided,surprisingly, that they would put as many resources into education as it needed should not come as a big surprise. Even today when most kibbutzim are nearly bankrupt they have not stopped trying to maintain this policy. Wake up Israel and do the same instead of pumping it into the pockets of the haves and other money wasters. They don't need it. "One of the major faults is that it's geared to the privileged, and that does include the kibbutz schools. It's geared at the schools with more than the minimal teaching hours. It's geared to schools with computers and Internet, and with students who have computers and Internet at home. It expands the social gap. Yes, I've found ways of doing projects sans Internet, but officially my students are "second class," and I consider that socially immoral. Batya" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####