Do you buy textbooks for your dcs?

[Foghead]

I bought a textbook for science for ds (yr8) and it’s really useful. Is it worth getting textbooks for other subjects too?
He could do with some English practice. Is a textbook worth it?

If you can afford it why wouldn't you?

I try as hard as I can to buy all the revision guides, I want to give my DC the best help that I can

If I have some spare time over the summer, I will write my own Maths textbook for my DC. For the other subjects, if they are good I will buy them.

Don't the school provide them :-o

No state secondary schools that I know of, provides textbooks. They don’t even give out English literature books. All the reading is done in class.

Our state secondary provides most of the dc's textbooks. But we have had to buy set texts for English, and also a shedload of supplementary CGP books for sciences and geography. Also additional books for Latin.

I've seen this many times before in similar discussions on a Facebook group I'm in.

I don't think people who went to school years ago realise that there's no money for state schools to provide all the books they need now. My DC have never brought home a text book apart from the poetry one they used to study in English Literature.

It's not right but it's reality now. Make sure you get the right ones for the new style exams, second hand ones won't cover the right topics

I don’t mind buying them. The school has never communicated to us regarding textbooks or recommended buying them. I suppose it makes sense to just get them.

The school sell some of the books at a heavy discount, DS's history book was half the cost of the same on Amazon. If they gave me a list I'd happily buy for all the subjects.

12 months in to the new curriculum and I am still waiting for the textbooks to be published.

Also, fashions about text books have changed. My son is at a selective independent prep (year7) and Dee is his subjects have text books at all. I hate it. Some subjects issue very detailed materials through the year, which leaves annoying scope for dopey boys to loose them but at least one can chase the bits down. Others set ridiculous homeworks of researching. Topics online with no guidance as to sites or detailed needed.

I therefore end up buying books but it isn't always easy to identify good ones now that bookshops don't really carry them.