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[quote=Anonymous]My kids have attended elementary school in two different states now and by and large they have had very few textbooks so far. I find it a bit shocking  because I grew up in a foreign country and we had textbooks for every subject starting in 1st grade. I imagine this is due to the fact that there is no national curriculum here and that boards of education are constantly altering curricula, so that it's almost impossible to find a textbook that matches what you're supposed to teach? However, I also find it incredibly impractical from the point of view of understanding what my kids are doing in school. I'm curious to know whether this is a general practice or whether we've just been unlucky so far.

So to participate please state your district, grades your child(ren) attend, and the subjects for which they have a textbook. I'll start:

Fairfax
5th grade AAP: math textbook only (there was a social studies text last year but it got recalled for inaccuracy).
3rd grade AAP: math textbook only

When we lived in the midwest the kids also had a reading textbook.[/quote]

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