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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St Mary’s does but seem to provide textbooks that students can actually bring home, at least not in elementary grades.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been in school. Is this a new thing/trend (not to provide textbooks that students can bring home)?? Or is this just a St Mary’s thing? Or a money-saving thing? It’s very odd to me. [/quote]

This is our private also. Teachers say they feel bad for the kids lugging massive backpacks home. In some cases families can ask for the textbook to come home if they feel they need it.

In most subjects (math, grammar, spelling) I can pull up the textbook online or find it another way when I need to help them. And the kids do bring home workbooks.

Since we just came from the public schools, I know that the existence of a comprehensive curriculum instead of worksheets printed by teachers to match whatever standards VDOE has pushed on schools this cycle is light years better. In the past if my kids had a math problem I was scrounging around the internet to find a YouTube video so we could figure it out. Now I can at least pull up a textbook. So amazing.[/quote]

My kids have books but they always go to Kahn Academy or YouTube.  I am sure by the time they are parents, there will be no textbooks,[/quote]

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