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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students.  Schools across the country have stopped using them.[/quote]

Public schools across the country have stopped using them and justify this by talking about the "expense" of purchasing them. Instead they are spending that money on Chromebooks which have full internet access because everyone knows children have the self-control to focus on the math problems they are supposed to be doing on the screen instead of Youtube videos.
In the meantime Catholic schools are still using textbooks and we can all see the terrible results they are getting in educating children of all socioeconomic backgrounds. [/quote]

Yes. Actually, I found a room in an [b]ES school piled with Math, LA and science textbook.[/b] County recreation used that room for a beginner level music instrument class. Letting school use the textbooks won't cause more spending. But FCPS wastes a lot money buying and forces teacher to use those stupid game based learning tool like ST Math, Lexia, Frax, Reflex. [/quote]

So the books still exist in storage?  Any central inventory of what books are stashed and the location?  Way back when on a playdate a friend was supervising HW and was astounded to see the variation from one FCPS school to another.  Same school system, division in VA.  [/quote]

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