I took a part-time teaching job while I look for full-time work and the first week, I had several students ask me if they had to buy the textbook. Que the heck? I did a bit of research and the book bundle costs $250. You can't sell back your old books if they are updating the edition the next year, so there were no used books for them to buy, and no hope of selling theirs at the end of the semester. The books date quickly, so there's no reason to hang on to them, but no way to sell them via the school bookstore. I showed one student how to buy previous editions online. I told them to list them on craigslist and I would tell the next semester's students to look there.
And that's just books. Tuition at this school - by their own numbers - is more than $43,000 a year. So to get a bachelors degree, they either need lots of scholarships, their parents go in debt or they come out deep in debt. It would be different if we taught them how to learn. Then they could learn what they need to on their own for free.
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