Hi Nadav It seems that you're mistaken The school is not suppose to purchase books for its staff only the publisher sends you 1 copy free of charge since your students are required to buy the books. The coordinator needs to send a complete list of the books with the teachers teaching the groups in different levels and you'll get the books soon; However listening discs (one per a book)can be ordered on the schools account (with the principal's permission of course) and the teachers will burn the number of discs needed. Shana Tova Dafna ----- הודעה מקורית ----- מאת: Cecile Hadassah Nadav <hadassahn@xxxxxxxxx> תאריך: יום ג', ספטמבר 20, 2011 5:42 נושא: [etni] is this normal?? אל: etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Need some help. I'm working at a school that just started this > year, with a > principal who is new to being a principal. We have one class with 23 > students divided into 2 groups. The students are required to buy > their own > textbooks. I expected that the school would buy copies of the > textbooks/listening disks for myself and the other teacher, since > we're not > ordering enough books to merit getting free teacher's copies from the > publisher. When I approached the principal about this, she said > she'd never > heard of such a thing as the the school providing books for the > teachers and > of course we have to buy our own books. I've worked in 3 different > schoolsand never had to buy copies of the textbooks I used in > class-- the school > always provided me a copy that I usually had to return at the end > of the > year. I thought this was standard procedure. Am I right? Or are there > teachers out there who have to buy their own textbooks every year??? > Hadassah Nadav > > > >