>>7119388No. The school basically acted as a middle-man between the kids and book publishers. About every six months, each kid could choose from a catalog, get their parents to pay the amount of money for the books they chose, and they'd arrive a week or so later.
Throughout every year, each kid would have to do a series of tests that would determine what their tenacity with literacy and numeracy skills was, and measure it by age. So if you were 9 years old and scored 9 years old for literacy and numeracy, you were scored averagely. But quite a lot of kids would be 8 or 9 years old and score the same age on numeracy but around 6-8 years old on literacy, and the management suspected that it was because the parents weren't buying many books for their kids. The idea was to try and encourage the kids to read more, which to be honest, it succeeded pretty well at.
