I fully agree. Having *whatever* percentage of distributed material requiring *whatever* percentage of students to spend hundreds (or even tens) of NIS on HW/SW in order to cooperate is *totally unacceptable*especially in light of no-cost alternatives (SW only of course. HW will still be needed).
2012/2/5 Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> > > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org>wrote: > >> >> I am ignorant of today's school procedures - whatever happened to "your >> homework is exercises 15.1 through 15.8 in your manual"? Or "write down >> your homework" at the end of the class? Or handouts? Why emailing is >> necessary? >> > > Eh, reading comprehension failure on my part again: the OP's problem is > not with home assignments but with school-wide distribution such as weekly > schedule. This renders the Word requirement - or even a computer > requirement - even less reasonable, IMHO. Making 5% - or 1% - of families > to buy a computer and/or specialized SW just to view a schedule is totally > unacceptable on financial grounds only. > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org <o...@goldshmidt.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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