Hm. Good. (Score 1)

I must say, the textbooks that exist for public schools are terrible. They present arbitrary facts and information to such a disinteresting degree that I even find them nausiating. And I'm the kind of guy who reads a dictionary when I get BORED. I think there is much to be improved upon for textbooks but we need to focus on a more hands on approach. Also, a good textbook wont do squat if the only people that decide to teach are not very talented... Teachers are paid less than babysitters. Who'd want to go into a profession that can't even pay the bills to teach some snotty nosed kids? Parents pay on average 400$ a month for daycare. If we paid teachers this at ONLY 20 students per class and about 180 days in the schoolyear this is about 48k. A starting teacher in my state only makes 30k a year (about). I'm all for the books. Let's get some better experts and write better books. Sounds cool to me.