Why don't history students look in their text book?

For the most obvious questions that have answers on the Internet, I just try to give a website that forces them to at least READ a bit to get their answer.

Maybe they'll learn something in the process.

Unfortunately, a lot of schools are phasing out the textbook. Therefore, many students are losing the skill of research. I have a teenage daughter and had to teach her how to properly use an index, encyclopedias..etc. I am also teaching her proper cursive and penman techniques as well as how to write a proper format for papers. Its ashame that our schools are now focusing more on math and science and removing the important lessons we learned as children. The system is failing our children; that's why we as parents need to pickup the slack. Now our government wants the kids to be in school longer...ridiculous.

these days, kids are too lazy to look through the book so they ask on the internet to get direct answers, not caring whether its wrong or right, just to get credit for doing nothing.

I think you hit on the answer when you said "using the book..." Most students, in my experience, don't like to do the work themselves. They don't seem to realize that teachers can usually tell when they haven't done their own work.

Some people are just lazy and want people to do work for them

because text books suck and don't tell you anything

because we are hooligans