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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 10:53 AM Original message |
A modest proposal to counter the high costs of public school textbooks.. |
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Phentex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. Get rid of textbooks |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Umm.. have you seen what kids do to technological devices? |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. That's a generalization... My oldest son takes good care of his electronics |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. It's enough of a generalization to be true in the aggregate.. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. And who will continue to update these devices? The new $75K/yr IT guy? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. And lose half of them in the first year to damage or theft |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. Government Printing? |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. We used to re-use our textbooks. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. They still do that I believe.. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. OF COURSE textbooks are collected and used year after year! It's not like "Macbeth" or Alg II has |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. So what happens when the parents of said children are |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. "A Modest Proposal" is the title of what may be the most famous satire in English.. |
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