parents buy the majority of student texts. We encourage the purchase of
used books. We contract with an online book seller for student text
purchase, but many of our parents go first to half.com.=20
Judith Claire Robison
Director of Technology
Saint John's Catholic Prep
Frederick, MD
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Jody Jones
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:59 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Sales of textbooks to students - emerging trend?
I teach at an elementary school (Forsyth School, St. Louis -prek-6) and
our school owns and lends the books. However, my older children attended
a
jrk-12 (Mary Institute Country Day School) school and students in the
upper grades all purchased their text books through the book store. Used
books were resold through student council as a fundraiser. Trend or not,
I attended an independent (7-12) school in Maine during the '70s and we
purchased our own textbooks through the bookstore.
As a side note - I imagine those of you with college-age children have
experienced sticker shock regarding textbook purchases. My kids' bills
(per
semester) have been well over $500 and have pushed $1000.
Best wishes - Jody Jones
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Peter Gow <pgow@bcdschool.org> wrote:
> Since I've been at this school (29 years) our students have always=20
> purchased all their texts. We're 6-12, which means that the bloody=20
> textbook companies update and upgrade the textbooks in a number of=20
> disciplines almost constantly in the name of offering the most=20
> up-to-date learning, so the life of many textbooks at the high school=20
> level, especially, is (perhaps artificially) short.
>
> On the other hand, my spouse is in a K-8, and I think the school owns=20
> and lends most if not all books there. This may be an issue of grade=20
> levels, where "classroom sets" of texts make sense for younger=20
> students and personal ownership becomes the norm for older ones.
>
> So I'm not sure there's a trend, other than the absurd rate of=20
> inflation in the cost of the books we buy for our two kids in grades 9
> and 11 at our school. Dunno why a Spanish book has to cost $160.
>
> Hope this is helpful--Peter Gow
>
> Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs Beaver=20
> Country Day School
> 791 Hammond Street
> Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
> www.bcdschool.org
> Tel. 617-738-2755
> FAX 617-738-2701
> Skype: petergow3
>
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