Californian schoolkids have been told to throw away their textbooks to help the state avoid bankruptcy. But they won’t need total recall: they’re going digital instead. The textbooks have been terminated by Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bodybuilding state governor who says they are “outdated” and too expensive.
Schwarzenegger announced the ban on textbooks in a classroom in Sacramento, holding up four large text books and joking: “I can use these for the (bicep) curls.”
He said that children would easily adapt and denied they would be getting a raw deal.
“Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion,” he said. “For so many years, we’ve been trying to teach the kids exactly the same way.
“Our kids get their information from the Internet, downloaded onto their iPods and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones…Basically, kids are feeling as comfortable with their electronic devices as I was with my pencils and crayons.
