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You can stroke your sarcastic cognitive dissonance all you want, but I never said there's nothing to learn in MCPS.  I did have textbooks growing up (in the U.S.), even before 8th grade.  And my parents certainly did help me with math.  I never liked or "got" division at first.  My parents had to help with that.  Math didn't click for me until Algebra.  And I'm definitely not a "special needs" case.  Ended up doing extremely well.  But I needed to have the opportunity to look at things on my own at home and understand them on my own terms. 
Why so invested in the idea that people shouldn't have textbooks?  Do you honestly not believe that some significant portion of the population would benefit?[/quote]

Honestly? In a perfect world, we'd all have textbooks, I guess. But I've seen an awful lot of lousy textbooks -- including math textbooks. And textbooks cost money that I think the school district could better spend on other things.[/quote]

That sounds like a pretty big assumption that having a decent textbook wouldn't be worth the expense.  So few of us are auditory learners that it seems like having textbooks for all of us visual types might avoid later costs in having to deal with kids who fall behind because they didn't have that other resource.  Of course, maybe in MCPS, the high SES kids are all getting tutors that make up for that problem.[/quote]

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