“What’s more disturbing for Wagner is that the first 100 pages discussing Judaism and Christianity are missing. The district blames a manufacturer defect in 68 books that are only a year old.”
Yeah, thats the ticket.
The index starts with page 1, but the first 100 are missing.
Come to think of it some of my books that are 5 years old don't have pages 1 to 100, it must be something like the "New Math"
Let's assume for a moment that there is nothing nefarious at work. It is all an innocent mistake due to a manufacturer defect leaving out 100 pages....
In that case, what in the world is the school district doing accepting defective textbooks? Textbooks are very expensive. I wouldn't accept a book of any kind that was missing more than a few pages. But this district pays full price (or rather the taxpayers pay full price) for textbooks missing 100 pages. Frankly, if I were the school district and this Dr. Michael Blasewitz, who is in charge of the high school curriculum, I wouldn't consider the defective book “my problem”. The defective books would have been shipped back to the manufacturer upon receipt with the expectation that they would be replaced with textbooks that are not missing content.
Repair it, replace it, or refund the money.
That's how it works. So where is the refund money?
If there isn't any, why are the people in the school district paying top dollar for defective merchandise?
Otherwise, it is an intentional establishment of religion by a State entity and should be forbidden, Constitutionally. (Assuming the teacher even recognizes what they have done--and if not, they should be educated.)