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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Textbooks are expensive, go out of date quickly and need to be repurchased every year or two. Schools have shifted to being a free for all. It's a disaster. You would think that private schools, with much more money than publics, would be willing to spend some of that tuition money on textbooks, but unfortunately they are more focused on their endowments and facilities. It's a sad day.[/quote]

Why do textbooks go out of date in a year or two? For K-8 (probably anything being learned in HS as well) the content being taught shouldn’t be something that becomes out of date . Math, English, History…. A used textbook for a decade will last longer than this year’s chrome book.  What happened to textbooks being handed out and returned at the end of the year.

The skeptic in me wonders if teachers like online pdfs bc there is no accountability.  Parents have no idea what is supposed to be covered vs what actually is covered.  And I find the most vulnerable students cannot absorb the material on the screen.  Setting the academically disadvantaged even further behind.  [/quote]

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