Lady Laments High Cost of Books, Says Publishers are Making Life Difficult for Parents

CURSORY: A lady has taken to social media to lament the high cost of school books and how schools and publishers have made it impossible for younger siblings to re-use their older sibling’s books.

A lady whose name is Benytar, a parent, has taken to social media to lament the high cost of books in schools.

She said that publishers and schools have turned books into their main source of income making it extremely difficult for parents especially in the current economic situation of the country.

She recalled how, her mom would write just the surname on the textbooks because the whole family will use it, but now it was not possible because recent textbooks required school children to write inside them making it impossible for someone else to use it

She implored on publishers to start making textbooks with separate workbooks and schools to bring down the prices of books as they were too expensive to help parents keep their sanity.

Benytar revealed that she had burnt some books that were used by her kids because they couldn’t be reused.

She wrote:

“Let’s not pretend we don’t know school owners, book writers and publishers are making life so difficult for parents.

“In our days, last borns used Textbooks older siblings used. But these days 1 person to 1 textbook.

“We need to speak up parents☹️The most annoying part is they’ve refused to produce workbooks along side these textbooks so other children can use the same textbooks afterwards. “

Trust me at a time like this, if the govt does nothing! Lots of parents might lose their minds🤦🏽‍♀️Way back, my mum would write “Ezenwafor’s Lib” on the textbooks and we all used the books, today children are forced to write in the textbooks.

“Thereby making it difficult for other siblings to useAnd the cost of books are so high, like schools now use books as a good source of incomeYesterday we sorted all my children’s books from preschool to last section and burnt them. I couldn’t behold the amount of money we burnt Can publishers help us now the economy is bad🤦🏽‍♀️?”

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