Greed is the problem behind textbook shortages, while pupils suffer: iLIVE

02 February 2015 - 15:46 By Jayn Roxton-Wiggill
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A textbook. File photo. Stein said the organisation used a sample of 80 schools in the area, and that all schools had confirmed delivery of textbooks.
A textbook. File photo. Stein said the organisation used a sample of 80 schools in the area, and that all schools had confirmed delivery of textbooks.
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It is unforgivable that children have to suffer the idiocy of adults who simply want to make money out of textbook purveying.

There is no need for children to buy text books every year…workbooks, yes. Textbooks no.

Textbooks should remain the property of the school and be headed down year to year.

Pupils are obliged to buy new ones only as replacements when they are either lost, defaced or damaged. This makes sense.

Few school-level textbooks need ‘upgrading’ within a ten year period in any case. Any updates can be added at far less cost.

What I have noticed is that everyone in the commercial sector is always keen to offer a ‘new and improved’ edition of a textbook, but it is simply another form of greed. In order for the publishers, illustrators and content contributors to make regular income.

The bottom line is that the children are the one’s who loose out the most.

So I suggest that the government buys text books of the school once every now and then - it would make financial sense.

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