Arutz-7\'s Haggai Seri reports that schools in Judea and Samaria opened today with \"hardly any mishaps,\" despite an increase in student enrollment of 8% over last year. \"650 classrooms are still not properly bulletproofed,\" Seri reported, \"and many bulletproof buses are still missing. This caused a delay in the opening of many schools, as many students had to wait for the buses to return and make a repeat trip to school. In Einav, parents of first-graders kept their children at home, hoping for official recognition for the teacher and classroom that they found in their home community so that the young pupils would not have to travel to Shavei Shomron; so far, the authorities are not budging... Special-education children had an even tougher time of it, as there are hardly any bulletproof vans to transport them, and in Gush Etzion, in fact, the students stayed home.\"



In the Shomron, the transportation dangers have led to the development of modern methods of education, including one entitled \"Learning from Afar.\" Yochai Damri, head of the Shomron Council Education Department, explains:

\"This is a unique program that is currently running in the Shomron, but is scheduled to be adopted in other areas in Yesha, in which a teacher can teach a class whose students are at home, dispersed in various communities. At an agreed-upon time, they all arrive at their home computer, and they can see and talk to each other. The teacher gives a class, and the students can pay attention, they can ask questions, give in their homework, etc.\"