CAVOK6d ago

In 2009, Sweden Replaced Textbooks with Screens: 15 Years Later, It’s Spending $120M to Bring Them Back

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In 2009, Sweden Replaced Textbooks with Screens: 15 Years Later, It’s Spending $120M to Bring Them Back - Lemmy.World

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In 15 years, they would have hopefully replaced those textbooks at least twice anyway. Or those are going to be some ratty-ass textbooks…
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Show threadcorsicanguppy6d ago

I attended elementary school in the days when we used old paper shopping bags to cover our text books. They were easily 15 years old and we lived in a winter town that got a lot of muddy sloppy snow.

I can confirm there is a path toward text books that last more than 15 years.

Show threadRivalarrival6d ago

15 years is pushing it, IMO.

The “This Book is the Property Of” label had 9 spaces. Most of my textbooks had 4-6 previous students.

I remember being assigned a couple books where all the lines had been filled out, and I had to create my own space below. They were definitely falling apart by that time.