All the school districts have spent a fortune buying new textbooks based on common core. It’s not so different when dealing with Algebra or Trig, but it’s in the elementary, and in the humanities, arts, and social sciences that it asks for nutso math methods or re-writes truth.
I think those books will be with us for an entire text cycle. Depending on the wealth of the district that’s anything from 5 to 10 years.
Shit can them and bring the old ones out of the closets and distribute them.
The texts are mostly garbage and my kids the ones my kids received are all take home one time use books. Work books, no hard cover returnables.
Besides when did a school system ever balk at spending money on stupid. Perhaps they can spend some of their money on smart.
The fact that money was spent on those books is not a reason to use them. Children's minds are more important than money. Any decent teacher can teach the basics without a textbook, especially now with the availability of online free sources such as Kahn Academy and Cool Math academic lessons.
I have no respect for teacher who went along with Common Core without objection.
What happened to the old books?