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Anonymous wrote:Two kids in college...lots of screen based books/subscriptions. My son has 5 classes and bought 2 actual books. Maybe liberal arts majors have more? He is Engineering.

No math/physics textbooks??
I'd think liberal arts majors should have less textbooks since they basically read separately published works and analyze them. But engineering?

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids in college...lots of screen based books/subscriptions. My son has 5 classes and bought 2 actual books. Maybe liberal arts majors have more? He is Engineering.

No math/physics textbooks??
I'd think liberal arts majors should have less textbooks since they basically read separately published works and analyze them. But engineering?

Anonymous wrote:Two kids in college...lots of screen based books/subscriptions. My son has 5 classes and bought 2 actual books. Maybe liberal arts majors have more? He is Engineering.

Anonymous wrote:My MCPS 6th grader is using her first textbook this year, in Spanish class. There’s only one class’s worth of textbooks so they can’t leave the classroom.

Anonymous wrote:This is another symptom of being part of a school system that is too big. How can you create equity when there are so many students to provide for. If it were a smaller system, or private school like the OP, they could take advantage of surplus programs like the one described. But with so many students, its either they all get it or they get nothing. With the huge expense, they end up with nothing.

We moved our daughter to a small private. She has textbooks and workbooks for all subjects. No lose papers with tons of typos. She has grammar, vocab, writing assignments (in Reading, Science, and Social Studies) knows how to write cursive, has a science project due each year in middle school (mandatory). This is real education.

Anonymous wrote:This is another symptom of being part of a school system that is too big. How can you create equity when there are so many students to provide for. If it were a smaller system, or private school like the OP, they could take advantage of surplus programs like the one described. But with so many students, its either they all get it or they get nothing. With the huge expense, they end up with nothing.

We moved our daughter to a small private. She has textbooks and workbooks for all subjects. No lose papers with tons of typos. She has grammar, vocab, writing assignments (in Reading, Science, and Social Studies) knows how to write cursive, has a science project due each year in middle school (mandatory). This is real education.

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Anonymous wrote:DS has just started at a new private school in Montgomery County and has left his English lit textbook at school. He can’t remember the title of the book and has an essay due tomorrow. The book was provided by the county. The cover is blue and has a picture of a boy looking at flying books. Does anyone know the title and publisher? Thanks.

The book was provided by Montgomery County?? My tax dollars at waste! They don't even provide books for my child attending public school.

+1
My child is in 5th and is yet to see ANY textbook. WTF?

Anonymous wrote:This is making me furious!!

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Anonymous wrote:When OP says the book was provided, these are likely the surplused books that are available to the public through the warehouse.

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What warehouse? Is there a name I can look up? A phone number or link?

My kids are in college now, but I've been pushing for textbooks since my oldest started school. I've asked BOE candidates and members at community forums about textbooks. I served on a curriculum review committee. I'm also a frequent visitor of the public library and the library bookstores. I've heard parents talk about ordering textbooks from Amazon. Nobody ever said anything about textbooks available through a county warehouse. This would be a valuable resource for parents. If such a resource exists, let's publicize it so that it can be utilized by the broader public.

Anonymous wrote:This is making me furious!!

Anonymous wrote:MD does indeed provide money for parochial schools to buy textbooks. From the dept of ed:

The Maryland Nonpublic Student Textbook program provides "funding for the purchase of textbooks, computer hardware and computer software for loan to students in eligible nonpublic schools, with a maximum distribution of $60 per eligible nonpublic school student for participating schools, except that at schools where at least 20 percent of the students are eligible for free and reduced price lunch program, the distribution will be $90 per student. The textbooks and computers purchased under this program must be secular in nature and acceptable for use in any public elementary or secondary school in Maryland." Maryland Nonpublic Student Textbook Program: 2008-2009 Program Requirements and Procedures for Ordering Textbooks, Hardware, Software, and other Electronic Learning Materials, Maryland State Department of Education, October 2008.