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[quote=Anonymous]Retired elementary FCPS teacher here. This should be the rallying point for parents. Kids would always be excited to get new textbooks at the start of the year. They had accompanying workbooks, as well. The curriculum was laid out in an orderly fashion and kids could reference the glossaries or indexes as needed. Absent kids could catch up. Parents could see what was being covered. Substitute teachers could keep things moving. Imagine if all those kids had had textbooks and workbooks at home during Covid. Many families could have helped kids keep learning.

It takes an incredible amount of teacher time to copy papers and packets and deal with the technology, and to help the kids with technology. It adds incredibly to teacher stress and burnout, especially for those who teach multi-grade classrooms.

There are many amazing teachers who do a great job design8mg and delivering instruction without textbooks, but those teachers spend hours outside of school doing so.

The black and white composition books with all the cutting and gluing are a nightmare for kids with fine-motor and organizational challenges, and if a kid is absent, it’s a hassle and time-consuming to catch them up on that. I did it for a year when they first started and then used binders and three-hole punches.

It used to be the district paid for textbooks and workbooks, and then they shifted that to individual school budgets, from what I understand.

These tech things are so expensive and they often require a multi-year contract. They should all be vetted by actual classroom teachers.

The reading textbooks were held up by Youngkin’s administration in the past year or two, because they all had to be reviewed for stuff they didn’t want in books.

If kids rip up stuff admin won’t make parents pay, but that can be changed by the school board. Kids can work off the costs in high school by doing Saturday chores at school. [/quote]

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