OGC 1975! I'll catch up with you off the listserve.
Jody (Clark) Jones
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Greg Kearney <kearney@tribcsp.com> wrote:
> We have been trying to get away from textbooks by using internet resources
> which stay current and are free. Cost is a big issue to our families many of
> which are on very limited incomes. We have started to use the open source
> textbooks as well.
>
> Jody, I too went to school in Maine (Oak Grove-Coburn 1976) where did you
> attend?
>
> Greg Kearney
>
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Jody Jones wrote:
>
> 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
>>> purchased all their texts. We're 6-12, which means that the bloody
>>> textbook companies update and upgrade the textbooks in a number of
>>> disciplines almost constantly in the name of offering the most up-to-date
>>> learning, so the life of many textbooks at the high school level,
>>> especially, is (perhaps artificially) short.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, my spouse is in a K-8, and I think the school owns and
>>> lends most if not all books there. This may be an issue of grade levels,
>>> where "classroom sets" of texts make sense for younger 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 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 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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