> sits on the shelf for the next kid.

Maybe in a post-Soviet country they did. In my school they shredded them so the next class had to buy a new set.

Why did they do that?

	▲	dmd 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Presumably because the school district got a slice of the money from the publisher.

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zigman1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What? Are you serious?? :o Sorry, this is the saddest sentence I have read in a long time.

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dmd 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep. A public school in NY suburbs in the early 1990s.

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zigman1 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well... I am sure someone made good money out of that.

In Slovenia, a post-Yugoslavian country, the school library coordinated a textbook borrowing scheme, where they would own all the material and lend it to students each year. Parents would pay a small "subscription", so each year or two one subject would get new books.

	▲	lstodd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's how it worked in USSR in 80s. The school supplied the books and they were the ones that the previous grade used. If they got busted beyond all repair only then they'd be replaced with new.