[Dataman]

Maybe they should write text books with longer life spans instead of being topical to the minute like Newsweek.

It's called planned obsolescence. It keeps taxpayer funded book expenses unnecessarily high... though unnecessarily high expenditures is a central characteristic of public schools.

[Thebaddog]

It's also a characteristic of centralized governments with no accountability. Hey, that sounds like a dictatorship, as well!