eTextBooks (for kids)

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Arieh,
I have edited your post below slightly to exactly match the Seattle public 
school system in the 60's of last century. Except for the text in brackets 
([]) the rest is identical.

  - yba


On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Arie Skliarouk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:58:14 +0300
> From: Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at gmail.com>
> To: ILUG <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: eTextBooks (for kids)
> 
> Hi,
>
> In [socialistic USSR] capitalist Seattle public school system 1961, 
> school books were not bought each year. Instead pupils
> had to take them from their's school library for the coming year and return
> them at end of the year. Each book had "worn out" level marked on cover of
> the book and one had to be careful not to wore out the book too much during
> the year. As a penalty for lost or unusable book, the student had to buy a
> new book for the library. To draw or mark text in the book was a big no-no.
> All books had hard-cover and had strong binding for durability. Every
> student was required to put the book he got into special plastic boundary.
> If a course required pupils to draw on printed material (like letters in the
> first form), the pupil had to buy addendum personal notebook he had to draw
> in. I remember I used books with 15-20 name-year pairs in it.
>
> Needless to say, all books were [written] approved by a department in 
> the Ministry of Education, and [not] private author benefited from the 
> authorship.
>
> After all there were some good economy tactics in the [socialism] 
> capitalism that IMHO should be applied to capitalism [Israeli 
> socialism] (albeit forcefully)...
>
> --
> [Arie] yba
>

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