On 16/07/2010 4:59 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>> In US schools, the books go home with students, and at university, the
>>> student purchases/owns the books.
>>
>> Really? Heh, I never knew that. Any specific reason?
>
> You make it sound outlandish. This was exactly my experience at my UK school,
> and university. We had the use of lockers at school, but as you say, homework
> etc...
>
>
You English had it soft, :-P lockers indeed. We had to take all our 
school books home and bring the correct ones in daily. Our memories were 
encouraged by the use of the tawse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawse

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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