Schools phasing out physical books

[(not) Narancia]

So i dont know if this is more of a regional thing, but my sibling's highschool has been phasing out physical books in favor of ipads for a few years now and i gotta say: i fuckin' hate it. I understand the logistical benefits that elektronics provide, but surely they should be supplementary at most.

I mean.. let's really get into the thick of it, okay? I remember being the lazy, stubborn ass kid i was, i didn't pay the most attention in class. So when i wasn't twiddling my thumbs and looking out the window aimlessly, what did i do? flip through my textbooks. Read the little factiods that somewhat passed as sort of kind of entertaining reading material. Hell, maybe i'd even start doing homework out of sheer brainrot from listening to my empty husk of a teacher. What i'm trying to say is that physical textbooks kind of force you to interact with the subject matter to some degree. When you've got an ipad glued to your skull, you can just tab out and go play snooker or text your friends any time the teacher isn't close to your desk. 

There's a lot of other things i've got to say on this and none of them are good. Long story short: please for the love of god don't let textbooks die. Like please?

[PocketSand]

Well I can also see the benefit of it being electronic. Since books deteriorate over time. And this way there's no way kids can vandalize the books or highlight stuff.

I've had textbooks that contained random scribbles and pages that would be highlighted. Also books where the cover was falling apart and taped. 

Not to mention textbooks are heavy and really a pain to carry even with a backpack. It could possibly cause long term negative effects to the body if kids decide to stuff their backpack with a bunch of textbooks. 

And of course with it being electronic you save trees. So if can also be considered an effort in going green.

 

[SmolAetherr]

sounds like a fantastic way to encourage distractions and to destry any resell value of overpriced books

 

and a chance for those books not to be overpriced (extreme doudt)

 

[DaddysMonkey]

My take on this :

If the teachers and school are actually diligent the books won’t be destroyed. 
 

When I was in highschool , as much as the kids were fuckin asshats that I went to school with… our textbooks were kept extremely nice. Our books weren’t taken home with us , they were kept in the classroom and if we were caught disrespecting the book you received a consequence such as a detention. There’s books and writings on paper that are thousands of years old , I think some books should be alright. 
 

I appreciate everything technology does for us but computers aren’t forever. What happens if the IPads get hacked and are unusable for a day or multiple days ? You know what the back up is ? More often than not , books. What happens when society goes to shit and we don’t have electricity anymore ? Books will still be there. I personally believe electronics in school , even if it has good intentions like to teach kids… it’s just a distraction. Kids are smarter than adults nowadays with electronics. Hell even when I was in high school I was hacking the parental lock system so I could go into AlbinoBlackSheep instead of doing my lessons. I also used our computers to help my friends cheat in class , cause you can quite literally just Google all the answers instead of being forced to learn and read it in class. 
 

I’ll always choose books over electronics for education. 

Edited September 17, 2022 by DaddysMonkey

[WigglyBun]

I can understand why they're dong it, and yeah some of it does make sense to go electronic...and some doesn't. lol For me though I can't seem to actually sit and get my brain focused on something if it's on a screen. It could literally be about my special interests and I just can't seem to get my brain to focus.

My high school would have detention students skim through returned textbooks & make note of new doodles/scribbles...so if you returned a book and it had some new doodles in it that weren't noted before...you'd get a letter and a fine. If you couldn't pay off the fine you'd have to 'volunteer' in the school cafeteria for like a week of lunches or something to pay off the fine. It was maybe $10, which felt like a lot at the time, to me at least. I think my part time job paid like $5/hr at that time..so I guess it's not horrible. lol A lot of the books that I had were in really good condition, so I'm assuming their system worked well.

And as others have pointed out, you can get into so much mischief on electronics. Sure I went to school in the late 90's & early 2000's...but I knew more than my computer teachers at that time about computers so it was fairly easy to get around what I should have been doing and do other things.

Edited September 17, 2022 by WigglyBun
Typo, and I added in last sentence.