Teacher Fired for Refusing to Make Students Buy Pricey Textbooks - Polidicks

Couldn't he require the students to get the textbook, but tell them they won't need it? I can't imagine the school being able to do too much if all of the students refused to buy it. After all, if a teacher tells their students a book is required, it certainly isn't the teacher's fault if none of the students buy it.

In my spring semester, I had to spend $1,100 on 6 books. That's the same price as my tuition My scholarship paid for about $~700 of that. I bought [I]only[/I] used books and got as many rentals as I could as well. And then when I went to sell them back at the end of the semester, they only accepted one of the books, and it was the cheapest one.

Christ alive, that is ridiculously stupid. I can understand that some people may prefer e-Books over physical copies but the fact that you HAVE to buy an e-Book is such utter shite.

I'm so glad we're not required to buy books in the UK, only recommended them, and even then we get to choose who we buy them from and don't have to use inflated school prices.

If I were paying that much for a book I'd expect it to be a leatherbound hardcopy. [editline]26th September 2012[/editline] What the christ happened to leatherbound books? I'll kill the cow and tan its hide myself if that's what it takes to get a leatherbound Terry Pratchett collection.

I got to Umass Amherst, and as far as I can tell, you're not required to buy any book from any particular place. You can buy books from wherever the hell you want. You're free to share them, and the local library keeps copies of every book used as a public copy. (AKA They're not all bad)

My university doesn't require me to buy books at all.

This is why I don't buy textbooks until I know that I need them. I made this mistake in the past, and I won't be doing it again.

[QUOTE=Metashotzo;37808905]The book prices are total bullshit. I've only been in a few community college classes so far, but in a Theatre Appreciation class the teacher was going over the schedule for the month and somebody raised their hand and said, "Well, what about "this book". The teacher said, "Oh we won't be reading that." Everyone let out an audible groan.[/QUOTE] college book rule number 2: never buy any book before the first day (rule 1 is to never use the campus book store)

this is why i just don't buy textbooks unless it's absolutely necessary

Id break those director windows if i knew a teacher got fired for that.

The fact that they required them to buy a temporary e-book is bullshit but really, text books have always been retardedly expensive. I really think it's more up to the students to find alternate ways of acquiring books (if they can) such as renting them or buying them for cheap. Also don't buy books until the first week of classes so you know if you'll need them or not. Personally I use chegg.com and every semester I save anywhere from 200-300 dollars typically.

[QUOTE=Milkyway M16;37811762]The fact that they required them to buy a temporary e-book is bullshit but really, text books have always been retardedly expensive. I really think it's more up to the students to find alternate ways of acquiring books (if they can) such as renting them or buying them for cheap. Also don't buy books until the first week of classes so you know if you'll need them or not. Personally I use chegg.com and every semester I save anywhere from 200-300 dollars typically.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Students are not allowed to substitute a hardcopy for an e-book; they may buy one in addition, but the download is required under all circumstances.[/QUOTE] that's not an option here

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Welcome to Collage. where the prices are made up and the books don't matter.

so glad to be done with college for now till I want to bridge over to RN my school only made me pay for ridiculous unecessary things a few times but it was still incredibly frustrating

Hai, just want to add to the anecdotal funtimes. My first semester, I bought all the textbooks online from the campus bookstore and before the first day. This was around $450 or so, and I only ended up using half of them. By the next semester I waited and knew what to expect, and adjusted accordingly - live and learn. So far, it's been pretty good sticking to that. However, my chemistry class this semester has online homework from a website where you have to buy a code for it, except the code is only bundled with the book. I thought they might have a separate code purchase option (for anything upwards to $30-40 maybe). Instead, they force you to purchase the e-book if you want to get this code, which is $97 (for a semester's access) or buy the physical book with the code (new only, used copies don't have it). The homework doesn't count all too much, so... I have not bought it.

[quote]immediate termination of employment for insubordination.[/quote] "Insubordination" should not be cited as a reason for termination outside of the military. Anybody with that level of a powertrip doesn't belong in any kind of management or administrative position.

[QUOTE=ijyt;37811159]I'm so glad we're not required to buy books in the UK, only recommended them, and even then we get to choose who we buy them from and don't have to use inflated school prices.[/QUOTE] I'm in the US and honestly its pretty much like that here. Most schools don't explicitly require textbook use, they just have departments standardize which textbooks people should use, etc. It's up to the teacher if they really want to use it. I.E. my history teacher a couple of quarters ago flat out said that the textbook in the slyabus is only needed if you like to use it to study and/or end up missing a lot of class. He actively told people to just save their money and not buy a textbook unless they benefitted from it, since the textbook industry is bullshit. The only textbooks I've ever been REQUIRED to get for classes no-ifs-ands-or-buts was lab manuals for science labs, and those were more like workbooks and never cost me more than $30. Otherwsie the teacher just said what the textbook was, and maybe had readings, but they were only supplimental - all info you *really* needed to know were in lectures. Sometimes I do get a teacher that uses a textbook for tests and stuff but its rare, and you can still either figure out the answers anyways or at least pass with a decent grade on the exam by just relying on lectures.

most of my teachers usually just scanned and posted pages we needed on the school website and a couple of them barely even used the books at all and just tested on powerpoint notes they wrote up.

Am I wrong, or is the cost of going to college getting to be higher than the money you'd make with the 'benefits' of graduation?

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37809087]this is wrong and i want whoever came up with it to fall into a hole and die[/QUOTE] seriously, how is this business practice okay? it's not even about the fucking education anymore what the fuck! [editline]27th September 2012[/editline] fucking this is what bugs me about college it's such a fucking weird system in my eyes. it's fucking retarded and you have to jump through multiple flaming loops just to fucking get by it seems for a goddamn education

[QUOTE=AfroNick;37813035]Hai, just want to add to the anecdotal funtimes. My first semester, I bought all the textbooks online from the campus bookstore and before the first day. This was around $450 or so, and I only ended up using half of them. By the next semester I waited and knew what to expect, and adjusted accordingly - live and learn. So far, it's been pretty good sticking to that. However, my chemistry class this semester has online homework from a website where you have to buy a code for it, except the code is only bundled with the book. I thought they might have a separate code purchase option (for anything upwards to $30-40 maybe). Instead, they force you to purchase the e-book if you want to get this code, which is $97 (for a semester's access) or buy the physical book with the code (new only, used copies don't have it). The homework doesn't count all too much, so... I have not bought it.[/QUOTE] I never thought I'd see DRM applied into education

A textbook company setting up an "institution" or "college" to forcefully sell useless PDF's. This is why for-profit education is the stupidest thing ever

[QUOTE=Fort83;37816380]One of my teachers requires us to buy a book for his class. The catch is that he wrote the book.[/QUOTE] the majority of instructors who write the books used for the course usually only use their book for the course so nothing new there.

I really hope they change this. If I qualified to get student loans next year I was planning on attending the local Art Institute here. If this is the sort of retarded bullshit I have to look forward to I'll have to find somewhere else.

[QUOTE=TestECull;37810609]We don't have a choice. What we'd save in tuition and materials costs studying in the UK we lose in airfare over there and the way higher living costs, so our only options are to either pay out the nose for school or just not go and hope for the best. It's...not ideal.[/QUOTE] Come to canada.

I remember somebody here saying their teacher told them to buy the textbook, or if they couldn't afford it, they could "obtain" a digital version somehow That guy sounded awesome :v: