<p>I have old school stuff taking up shelves, corners, and droors. I want to sell them though in case they could help for future references. What do you do with your old school books?</p>
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<li>I DON’t want to sell them.</li>
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<p>I sell them to underclassmen.</p>
<p>Why don’t you want to sell them?
I can’t imagine the textbook itself ever being helpful- only the notes.</p>
<p>I keep all my old textbooks in case I forget stuff.
But then again, I get most of my knowledge from textbooks anyway…</p>
<p>I guess it’s not that bad, since I see a lot of grad students keeping copies of first-year physics and calculus books.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine my Algebra II or Geometry textbooks ever being useful- it’s not as if I’m going to forget the material or something.
I do, however, keep review books.</p>
<p>I’m the exact opposite – I keep textbooks and trash review books 
different styles, I guess.</p>
<p>Lol</p>
<p>From the money I made from old textbooks last year I would have been able to buy 3 of each of the books I need for this year. In other words, after costs of this year came out, I was able to pocket quite a bit.</p>
<p>Sell them on eBay or donate them. The New Orleans school district would probably love them- even before Katrina they didn’t have enough textbooks for their students! The textbooks they do have are old and outdated.</p>
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<p>One copy of a specific kind of textbook isn’t going to help NOLA public schools. A classroom set, on the other hand, would.</p>
<p>One textbook is better than none. A single textbook could be a source of inspiration for an aspiring student or act as a secondary resource for a teacher. An extra math book, for instance, would provide a teacher with sets of new math problems for students or provide a student with extra work to catch up. A literature book with different stories could send a poverty-stricken student into a new world.</p>
<p>^If you really want to help out, raise money, and donate it to a public school (NOLA if you so desire) library to buy books. Or raise money for the school itself; even pre-Katrina lots of publics were run down. I once spent a saturday painting one- it looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in years; how anyone can learn in that environment is beyond me.</p>
<p>But I hold still- one textbook isn’t going to help that much. Sure, it might help one student or give the teacher some extra math problems. But if you want to help a whole entire class, they don’t have the money needed to photocopy pages out of a book.
Heh. I’ll even give you a list of public schools in the area that could use some help (there are some good ones, as shocking as that may sound).</p>
<p>I live in the New Orleans area and agree that what you suggested would help, but that doesn’t mean a textbook should needlessly be thrown away. It doesn’t necessarily have to go to New Orleans, just a disadvantaged school that wants it.</p>
<p>I can remember quite clearly what happened to my school’s old textbooks that were about ready to be thrown away: a teacher took then all, put them in her car, and brought them to some of her teacher friends at a New Orleans public school.</p>
<p>^Same.</p>
<p>I never said the textbook should be thrown away, but rather sold to make money and donate that/ use that towards a class set of whatever. (I forgot you go to a school in LA- why do you go so far away anyway? Is it specifically for the school? Or is it a K issue?)</p>
<p>“I’m the exact opposite – I keep textbooks and trash review books
different styles, I guess.”</p>
<p>same.</p>
<p>I turn mine back in to the school at the end of the year, haha. Go public education!</p>
<p>Yup, I have to turn mine back in too… which is sometimes annoying if I forget something and don’t have anything to look it up in. You could either donate them or else sell them on eBay or Amazon or something and donate the proceeds, if you want to be charitable. Otherwise, just sell them to underclassmen.</p>
<p>Uh…paper mache?</p>