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I’m with the Wolf.

Also, I live out of town. Our children went to day schools, not yeshivos, even if the school had the word yeshiva in the name.

The School libraries were sorely lacking.

They had full secular curiricula and from grade 3 the public library was a necessary place to research and do homework and projects.

Many books were put on reserve by the library matching the teachers’ reading lists. They could only be checked out with a child’s card. Children have a 4 book maximum check out limit in this area. This method kept unscrupulous parents from checking out all the books on a list to the detriment of other students.

Our town’s library has computers available for research use. The ones in the children’s section, accessible only by scanning the bar-code on the child’s library card have internet access that if highly filtered by age level.