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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a teacher, but teachers at my kid's schools have said that the issue is that textbooks become outdated so quickly after they are printed. Putting so much money into a resource that needs to be reprinted/updated frequently is wasteful.[/quote]

That's baloney. I'm pretty sure time moved as fast from 1950-2010. I'm also sure math, foreign language, and all sciences are not moving at such a rapid pace. The only area I can image that being true is history/social studies. And even that is nutty. And you can't tell me printing out sheet upon sheet during the year is really producing less waste than a single textbook.[/quote]

+1 that sounds like BS[/quote]

It's not that the subjects change, it's that the publishers have shortened their print runs. So a textbook goes out of print in 3-4 years. If you're a system with 50,000 kids, and the textbook you use is out of print, and you don't have enough copies, what do you do? You have to pick a new textbook and throw away all the old ones. [/quote]

Yeah, that makes more sense.[/quote]

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