Our state and our county continue to keep our children in the dark ages in the public schools system. The children are still being issued hard copy, bound textbooks instead of moving them into the digital age. I proved to the school board that they could buy a Kindle for every school child and download the textbooks for a fraction of the cost of hard copy books and they just stared at me like I am an idiot.
Children need to become comfortable and proficient with digital media and school books are full of errors, become obsolete the day they are published, they are heavy to carry and bulky to store. The pages get torn and written on, the covers get damaged, and often the books get wet and are totally ruined.
I don’t see any reason at all to continue forcing our children to carry textbooks back and forth on the bus every day when they could just download what they need on a digital reader at less than half the cost. This dogged resistance to switching to digital media makes me think there must be some secret back room deals with the book publishers and perhaps some kickbacks to certain school board members to keep spending the public’s money on outdated books.