I haven’t heard of text book rental fees before? Must be to insure that the kid doesn’t destroy the book? Does it get retuened if the kid turns the book back in or does the school keep it and why if it is returned in good shape?
HA, no way. You never see that money again and if your child does lose the book then you have to pay again for it to be replaced.
The simple fact is this money goes to a lot of other things besides just textbook rentals. Our local high school has about 1k kids, each averaging lets say $200 each. That means in the four years they go through that school the textbook fee would be about $800k, that's conservative too, and many of those books are older ones like math that don't change with the times either.