When did US Schools stop issuing history textbooks?

WarrenD's argument aside, I have to agree with Memphis Belle !!

The ISSUE here isn't humorous teachers nor school budgets... the kids are being TAUGHT to a textbook, BUT they are too lazy to open them !!

Sw171655 makes me laugh, she's a 'top contributor' yet she spices her political rant with a call for executions ?? Is that a spell-check error or just plain ignorance ??

I agree with Mariner3

Kids are just plain LAZY, with lazy parents and teachers it seems... I HOPE teachers are checking THIS site for their own questions and failing all who plagiarize.

I think it's a matter of the government reducing funding for schools, and then the schools cutting out the essentials while keeping the non-essentials like sports and band.

I am really amazed at how many questions I've read on here that are COMMON KNOWLEDGE or really easy if you just open the index and look for the answer or *gasp* you GOOGLE the answer!

I'm surprised as well that teachers are giving history homework as multiple choice questions. Tests, sure, but homework? I NEVER got a history assignment in school that was multiple choice unless it was a matching section on a worksheet.

I really don't get it either, but I guess these people just prove more and more why I have no hope for the future of man.

It is my understanding that they still do issue textbooks. Why these children (regardless of age) spend 5 minutes to miss spell a question direct out of a book and post online instead of spending 30 seconds to answer or at least look up the answer is a good question in and of itself. I wunder wy the Inglesh languig and grammr isnnt being better more good teached in are schools. Sometimes I feel like I am the only person that shakes THEIR ( not there, they're or theyr) head at what is asked and how the material is presented. Just think, our future doctors, heads of state and business leaders are too busy getting someone else to do the work for them.

sw171655 has a very Draconian idea but it would DEFINITELY get results..LOL

Years ago when I was in school history was a boring subject. Now I love it.

Part of the reason is that schools really don't know quite how to teach history. I learned history by buying and reading books on historical subjects that interested me. You study World War II if you want to understand modern Europe or Asia. And you study specific aspects.

History is exciting if you approach it that way. When I was in college my history book was best used as a life preserver. It was so dry in case of a flood I could stand on it and never get my feet wet.

But I have other books--including a 1920 book on the history of Europe--that are as exciting as an action movie. Presentation is everything.

History is an overlooked topic in the lower education. Many of the textbooks are crude and inadequate, and I often remember teachers skipping over important parts of history such as wars. I blame the education system for our mediocre education.

Students have ceased using their brains. The easy way out seems to be the order of the day. Allow others to do the work for them.