How will these all fit into my backpack?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

How about teachers supply textbooks in their class for classroom use only. The ones the students have to buy stays at home. You check the books out at the beginning of class and check them back in at the end of class?

Text books are expensive. At anywhere from $100-$300 a pop, classroom sets (say, 30 books) cost $3000-$9000. How many classrooms are in a school? That's an investment of a few hundred thousand dollars, easy.

When I went to school, we were issued books that we kept and returned at the end of the year. But budgets are getting tight.