eTextBooks (for kids)

[Omer Zak]

I was primary school student in the pre-1967 Israel.

And at the time our parents were required to purchase books for us each
year.

Books usually were good for few years, so there were used book bazaars.
However, even then there were complaints that publishers issue new
editions each few years.

When I was in Los Angeles, USA, between 1971-72 and attended a junior
high school (corresponds to our "Hativat He'beinaim"), the books there
were loaned to students rather than forcing the students to buy them.

I think the textbook publishers in USA make their dirty money from
school board budgets (usually financed by property taxes) rather than
directly from parents.
                                         --- Omer


On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 14:35 +0300, Ely Levy wrote:
> I think it was like that also in the pre 67 Israel.
> 
> Ely
> 
> 2009/9/8 Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>         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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