Seriously, government should get out of education completely and let parents pay for it themselves.
Sounds like it buys them time to publish new text books. If you get my drift.....
Good by then we will be able to go back to Math Science English and other valuable lessons. Social Studies programs should be outlawed and left to the parents. Of course this will put many Communists out of work but we can offer free plane tickets to Cuba and Venezuela where they can become truley useful idiots picking sugar cane.
lol!
I am sure Bill Gates or someone will donate history, science, math and other books, all with Obama on the cover I would bet
I wonder what The Other State that drives the textbook industry (Texas) is going to do?
Why? What cutting edge information are kids learning in grade school? Anymore, the state has difficulty producing young people who are minimally literate - let alone on the bleeding edge of learning.
Holy cow, they’ll go through the entire Obama presidency without his halo-ed photo in their textbooks?!
Seriesly, though. How many behind-the-scenes bureaucrats did it take to analyze that decision?
California’s state payroll added 48 jobs a day every day FOR AN ENTIRE DECADE! (That’s “every day” as in 365 days a year!) Even this past year, with their woebegone budget, they managed to ADD 3,600 public workers.
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/035353.html
They’re like kudzu!
Seriously, as a former teacher, I can say that most textbook updates are unnecessary and often produced worse books. But the textbook companies are part and parcel of the public school monopoly, and they expect a fresh cash infusion every five years. This California thing is going to hurt them, because California and Texas provide most of their profit.
Another reason to homeschool!
This is more proof that government schools can not be reformed. Not enough money to buy textbooks? Unbelievable! These people are completely incompetent and shouldn't be left alone around children. Where are their priorities?
Hey, I am using books for my 3rd grader that my college grad son used. Then again, as a homeschooler, I don’t get $6600 per kid per year. I spend about $500 a year on books and materials. For up to four students at a time.
Usually, I get the bulk of what I need from EBay and other homeschool auction sites.
It can be done.
Is it really gonna take THAT long to re-write the history book???
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Seriously, as long as every kid has a text book that is legible and not falling apart, there really is not a problem here.
Just the opposite. There is plenty of funding for the teacher's unions. They can continue their work without the distraction of books
What is taught is a dumbed down version of every course. I went to private school 1-9, and then public school 10-12. I learned more in private school in grade 9 than public school grade 12. Indoctrination to the progressive movement is all that abounds in public school.
So they can rewrite history for 8 long years and then come out with the revised Obama era texts to explain economics, the Constitution, American history, the science of global warming and when life REALLY begins (age 4).
Ya...but how many new state pensioners...?
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Actually, considering the quality of textbooks continues to decline at an alarming rate, this actually might not be a bad thing.
That’s right... Education is a luxury.
/sarc
I don’t think that is such a bad thing...
We can rewrite them between now and then...
Put the facts back in ...