Legal actions against Ministry of Education, anyone?

[Boaz Rymland]

Hi,

First, just to give a quick update on the thread I initiated here lately
(titled "Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents
formats") and that still lives on. Below the bullet list update is the
actual content for this message:


   - Basically, my meeting with the school principal was more of
   an acquaintance meeting then anything else. The new school site that
   replaced its (terrible) predecessor works much better on my Chrome/Linux
   system. The site even have an internal online Word editor so I can view the
   weekly schedule with all the "nice" images within with little problem.
   Obviously, not all is so bright - read on... .
   - Just now, when I looked at that site trying to open the weekly
   schedule, it downloads it to me instead of showing online with the
   wonderful online Word tool so I'm back at square one in that sense.
   Obviously, until a more thorough solution will be implemented we'll always
   chase our own tail fighting silly usage and other problems (probably the
   teacher should have uploaded the document differently or use a Word version
   compatible with the online Word engine. You're imagination is always
   limited in comparison to what reality will bring about...).

In the mentioned thread some of you mentioned Ofek system and guess what -
we were referred to it recently. Only for enriching purposes etc so no
immediate fire to distinguish luckily. I've checked that site. They have an
official "requirements" document that mentions the dependency on Windows
and IE (BTW *both* are needed. Chrome/Windows will not be good they say.
Classic isn't it?). The document dates back to May 2011 and they say there
that they work to make the site compatible with other browsers (they don't
mention compatibility with other OS).

I'm sick of that.

I wanted to know if anyone have ever attempted some legal actions against
specific school or some other higher level entity against this
discriminating situation that is clearly not going to change  soon without
decisive action.
IANAL, but it looks like a rather sure bet to win such a case isn't it?
After all, its the "compulsory and free education laws" context that we
operate under and under such laws the official policy cannot force you to
spend hundreds of NIS (at minimum) to be able to do educational activity
that's supposed to be free. Further more, IMHO the official policy cannot
even "recommend" spending those NIS as its clear discrimination (its not
mere few NIS, its hundreds of them, at least).

I wanted to learn if such attempts have been made in the past or if anyone
has made some work in that direction (and can share his/her "interim
findings").

Thanks for the feedback,
Boaz.
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