[PeteB570]

Ditto from a parent in another “mesh net or clear plastic backpack” public school.

With three minutes between classes students carry all their books with them during the day.

In this day and age I can never figure out why they don’t have the schools books on CDs. I’d pay $10 a class to have the CD at home so the kids don’t have to cart the books to and from school.

[WLR]

Books, their purchase and the propaganda within them is just another aspect of the Public Education Con.

W

[SoftballMominVA]

Many, MANY of the book sellers do offer the books on CD, and often the schools have permission to make copies of the CD's to give out to kids. So why don't they? Lots of kids don't have computers. So the school's just don't make them available.

When your kids get their books, go to the publisher's website and see if there is a companion CD. Then I suggest you contact the school superintendent's office and ask to be put in touch with the book room and see if you can get the CD's for your kids.

[cinives]

Because they abuse the laptops and the schools can’t keep them running.

[SuziQ]

When our #3 son started high school, I just bought a used edition of each textbook, so he wouldn't have to bring any books home, and we didn't have to make the trip back to school to get a 'forgotten' book. The school always had a used book sale at the beginning of the year, and I could usually pick up a really grungy copy of a hardback for less than $15. What I couldn't find at the school, I ordered from used book sales on the Internets. When he was done with them, we sold them at the following years' book sale at the school.

It was a great idea, and I wish I'd thought about it when our older boys were there! #2 son says he still has back problems from carrying all those books back and forth. ;o)