closedshop closedshop@gmx.de writes:
there is a big problem, the government cannot finance the schoolbooks anymore and there is in germany as well a tendency to have central tests for certificates, this means a central contrywide curriculum of excercises to do and test.
Germany, one of the richest countries on earth does not have money and one with the highest taxes world-wide? Do not believe what they tell you. They just do not want to pay for books they rather want to spend the money to support building autobahns and the health system.
Of course, there is also something good about the refusual to "waste" money for the books: school book publishers will eventually have to adjust the prizes and the Kulturministrien next time must think twice about an orthography "reform"...
Having free school books as an alternative would be a good thing, sure - but do not tell us Germany is a poor country ;)