Last month, Principal Andrew Buck of  the Middle School for Art and Philosophy in Brooklyn  responded to complaints about the school’s chronic shortage of textbooks by telling eachers and students that textbooks were over-rated. In an e-mail to teachers containing ungrammatical sentences, incorrect punctuation, misspellings and incoherent statements, Buck told his employees that textbooks weren’t essential to the learning process, and noted that some students wouldn’t be able to read the books anyway.

A representative sample from the letter, which you can read in more detail here (it requires registering for Google Docs): Continue reading →