I remember seeing a report a few years back that in the US quite a few teachers in poorer districts were buying school supplies out of their own saleries.

If they use old books won't they have to tear out some of the pages in order to keep their political correctness up to date?

I actually saw on the news last night the clip about using the books as shields and, being in Oklahoma I thought I sure hope national news doesn't pick that up...guess my wish was not granted.

I thought they'd use the books as shields against accurate Science teaching, given that Oklahoma borders on Kansas.

Hey, why didn't officials think of such creative uses for old textbooks when I was in school - we could have added them to our duck and cover drills for whenever we were gonna be nuked by the Reds.