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#Math - #English - #Science #learning #Book disappeared!


Hi guys,

this is something that is driving crazy my wife and my self, we are realizing that do no exist real, or physical, books where the kids can study on. Everything is completely aleatory.

Here in #Florida exists for instance some guidelines but you cannot find a book. I help my son doing his homework when I ask him the source or I need myself to verify something there is nothing, we have to rely on Wikipedia only!

It is crazy!

My nephew in Italy has her books of Italian, Geography, Math & Algebra, Geometry, History etc... I did the same back to my time. I had books to read and to study, every years!

If you do a research, for instance, in Amatson you can find thousand of workbooks and practices book but not a learning book!

Ohmy god! What is happening?

This is insane, and if we express our concern to the other parents look that we are the only ones that feel this situation so unusual...

I recently took a course at the college and I remember that all the books that I had to read were accessibile only through an online paying subscription and only for a very limited time! Absurd! I still have at my parents' home all the books I studied for my graduation, I will send those to me when we will have enough space to take them.

I do not understand when in this county the right of having learning books has been revoked!

#school #education #RightToStudy #RightToOwnYourLearningBooks

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in reply to Daniel

We have text books from back in the day as well. So they get no printed material to reference? That's bad if a point isms well explained.
in reply to Daniel

They only receive homework, some other material is available online, teacher are also encouraging the homework typed rather than written; but suddenly we noticed weird grammatical errors and we realized the issue was because the act of typing, we reverted the assignment to pencil and paper and those errors became very few.
in reply to Daniel

Text books are expensive and heavy for kids to carry but, to me, they are important for understanding material.
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They can be expensive for families, but they aren't that much expensive if the publicly founded school pays for them (ideally in a situation where the publishers aren't able to just set any price they want).

As for the weight, some years ago I remember that they were experimenting with books divided in smaller parts, so that most of the weight could remain home (available for reference) while kids could only carry to school the parts needed for that day. I'm not sure whether it worked or if it was just a passing fad.
in reply to Daniel

I Love my Kindle but there are many advantages to print books as well, particularly for study/learning.
in reply to Daniel

@Daniel Although video reading is extremely easy and fast, studying on paper has some advantages, including the ability to create a mental map of a physical and perceptive nature: the thickness of the book, before and after the page you are studying , it helps to physically perceive the progress of the reading; or again, the position of a sentence in a particular point on the page stimulates our visual memory. After all, our mind has been reading for a few thousand years but it has been functioning in a spatial and perceptive way for hundreds of thousands of years
in reply to Informa Pirata

Besides all the pedagogic implications, the issue here is that kids and parents do not have access to the educational sources, kids are consuming education as they were consuming any other goods! At home they only do exercises or assignment, they do not study otherwise they would have control on their sources.

I can imply what they study at school by their homeworks but I do not have access to their sources.

Hence answering also to @mc I do not need any "learning" books, I need the ones that my son's teacher uses as reference for her lecturers. I have to be sure that school is providing the right education based on my belief and culture.

I am concerned because I do not know what happened here, and I do not understand why students of any grade do not complain or haven't reacted so far?
@mc

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