Comments on: Education waste: a textbook case

By: Phill90

Phill90 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:22:55 +0000

Hi there. It’s really interesting article. Especially this: “That error crops up in a second-grade math textbook, fully approved by the state of California, and used in 79 Sacramento public schools. The book is part of a series published by MacMillan/McGraw-Hill and used through the sixth grade. In the Folsom Cordova district, which also uses the series, teachers have tasked students with finding errors. The district’s fourth-grade students managed to find 90 mistakes. Teachers have found others and marked the texts with red pen.” How can it be? And ofcourse students will order their works somewhere and in fact don’t know anything. The question of deterioration education is very important in present days. Students don’t have any motivation to study.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:20:49 +0000

Sounds like a good idea John. I’m willing to bet that any number of fully private schools could turn a nice profit from the money per child now being spent and still increase learning significantly.

However, I’d leave the tax structure as-is and provide that per-student money to what ever school a parent chooses. I for one would not favor getting monthly bills for tuition.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:14:48 +0000

More reason to totally privatize schools, so they can pick their own textbooks without political meddling — from left OR right.

(And by privatization I don’t mean charters or vouchers: I mean totally ending the government school system, refunding our tax money so we can take care of our own kids, and repealing truancy laws.)

— John Seiler

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:38:10 +0000

Who wants to bet that NOT buying text books from Texas will result in higher priced books?
Anyone?