> Exams cost money to develop, administer and analyze. Administration 
> requires
> a process that makes it extremely difficult to cheat (in current culture
> where it may be possible to have entire texts downloaded in a fairly small
> hand-held device).  The cost to take the IBLCE exam quite likely reflects
> the costs incurred for those processes. Costs are costs -- there is no 
> free
> lunch and there's no free exam. IBLCE employees do not appear to be raking
> in the big salaries and bonuses from the exam.

Yep and the costs of sitting the IBLCE exam should take into account that 
some candidates are likely to be breastfeeding and this should be factored 
into the cost that everyone pays.  I really am shocked by this situation. 
How on earth will something like paid maternity leave ever become a reality 
in the US if an organisation like IBLCE sees the accommodation of 
breastfeeding women as an individual responsibility. I wonder if the same 
policy holds everywhere?
Karleen Gribble
Australia 

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