Or should I just start casually addressing how nearly everything in society has turned into a pathetic money-making scheme that under-delivers on every single broken promise.
Oh and creates GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY aka slavery.
Why aren't textbooks free? Government funded video archives of recorded lectures would not be nearly as expensive to produce as all these wasteful expenditures for gender programs in Pakistan.
Even uploading lectures to a corporate video site could at least monetize them with ads.
The answer is: Nobody wants "free education". They just want to scam people into thinking they do so they can scam them more.
Is anyone else sick of this?
Why am I pretending to debate people who aren't interested in actually providing professional and classical "education" to as many people as possible on the lowest cost possible? Or even debating what's useful in schools.
Everybody who goes into government always wants the most wasteful, expensive, least efficient, self-destructive thing possible.
Can we just address this and fix it?
Why are people learning about sex, race, drugs, and "black lives" at all instead of basic skills in economics, budget, shooting, sewing, basic electronics, etc?
The "education" industry is ruining everybody.
Public K-12 and Unis use textbooks too. They add hundreds, sometimes thousands, per year unnecessarily to the cost of TAXPAYER funded education.
Algebra doesn't change every 5-7 years and require all new textbooks. Neither does English Composition, Art History, and many other subjects.
Textbooks are ground zero for kickbacks and Taxpayer fleecing and Social Justice Propaganda. Not to mention EduFads ("Whole Math, Sight Reading, Diversity").
Open source textbooks created and issued by the state would cost a fraction to develop and deploy than Private Textbooks which sell mostly due to kickbacks and propaganda.
Additionally, in Red States the textbooks would be under popular control. Private Textbooks are generally written to appeal to Leftwing Teacher's Union and Social Science Communist Teachers and Professors, along with Board Members with long connections to the EduOctopus.
Still a bad idea. If public schools don’t think a new text book is worth it they just won’t get one. They have a budget after all, and not much of one at that, a text book has to be pretty special to make them want to switch. What you’re saying is let’s have almost never have a new text book published ever again because we got rid of any incentive to write one. It’s the same reason all socialism doesn’t work - The Law of Unintended Consequences.
Most people don't pay attention. Most Textbooks in Most Public Schools are woke. They are selected by woke EduAdmins and Teacher's Union Activists. There's also very little choice, the field in dominated by 2-3 big textbook publishers. Then there's all the kickbacks in terms of campaign donations and paid for trips to conferences in exotic locations.
There's no reason to pay tens of millions annually for textbooks across the state, when the state can commission it's own textbook and provide it for a fraction of the cost. There's way too much contractor domination of Government at all levels. Plus, local printers can print it free of charge as public material and make some money selling to students who prefer a paper copy.
Same reason the Little NH town I lived in had a libertarian school board member, he agreed - it was far cheaper for the school to provide it's own buses than to contract with Gaylord, who demanded a minimum yearly fee if a number of students to be picked up wasn't reached. The cost was not justified by the small number of students. Sometimes the Gov just doing it is cheaper and better.
It starves the EduAdmin & Textbook beast, while eliminating Wokey and Hokum, like the apocryphal Betsy Ross getting two pages on her alleged flag design (the evidence for this is scanty, it's mostly a folk tale) while Washington gets only a few paragraphs in a Major School Book used by 10k's of High Schools.
We have one of the highest per-pupil expenditures in the country, and the cost of K-12 textbooks plays a substantial role in that.
If we learned anything in the past year, it's that Corporations pursue their own interests, against America and American Values in many instances. Such as Massively Subsidized Delta, to Coca-Cola. Not to mention import-dependent Amazon, and thus the bias of WaPo, both owned by Bezos.
The Chinese are pulling off what Krushchev vowed to do - subverting America by bribing and offering cheap shit to Bureaucrats AND Corporate America.
You’re still fixing the wrong problem. If you do t like how the school board picks text books change the school board. Don’t disincentive writing textbooks. You’re literally being this meme right now. You’re that last person in this meme.
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Republicans are famous for standing on certain Principles at the exact wrong time.
This is a great example.
We have a major problem with Marxist Indoctrination and worrying about incentivizing textbooks is not really important right now.
Fixing the Marxist Indoctrination is Job #1, providing renumeration for highly politicized left-wing companies is Job #2,453.