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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard kids don’t use lockers anymore, so are they carrying all those books all day?[/quote]
DC had and used a locker in MS. DC was concerned when looking at HS to hear that no one used them. It turns out with the block schedule and mostly online textbooks, DC is carrying around binders and stuff but has never had an issue fitting the full day’s materials into a manageable (though sometimes heavy) backpack and also never uses their locker.

The school does still provide lockers, however, so if your kid wants or needs to use it, it’s there. [/quote]

What private is this, as many of PP said they still use text books?[/quote]

Electronic textbooks are still textbooks.[/quote]

We prefer a physical book and less screentime, but that does beg the question: are there schools with NO textbooks, electronic or otherwise, for most classes??[/quote]
What would be the source of information if they have no textbooks, physical or electronic? For classes like math and science in particular?[/quote]

We had science and math classes in public that were all driven by an app or website like IXL or random science articles piecing together the topic of the week. [/quote]

That is yet another reason to not send your kids to public school [/quote]

You could run a good--probably better--history class with the Oxford University Press "Very Short Introduction" series to build a framework and then high-quality chapters and articles by highly-accomplished historians ([i]not [/i]Howard Zinn or Paul Johnson, which were my high school history teacher's authors of choice). But for science and math, text books are really irreplaceable. I used them throughout my university studies. [/quote]

History classes taught from one textbook are BORING.  So many other sources to draw on that still reinforce literacy but engage the student many times more. Most students remember their history classes as a dull march through time when they don't have to be.[/quote]

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