[pepperdog]

"Maybe they should write text books with longer life spans..."

Amen! It is ridiculous to have to buy new textbooks each year, if they would get back to basics they would find that the basics haven't changed all that much. Furthermore it isn't necessary for the books to be completely rewritten for each new "historical" happening.

The textbook game is nothing but a cash cow for the writers (more teachers) the editors and the publishers. Am I the only one who remembers teachers actually teaching and using the blackboard to write the lessons? Students were expected to copy the lessons and do the work, I daresay part of the learning process was copying the lessons.

[Jim Noble]

It is ridiculous to have to buy new textbooks each year, if they would get back to basics they would find that the basics haven't changed all that much

The basics appropriate to grades K-8 have not changed since the pyramids were built.