Those grocery bag turned book covers of yore…

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Equivalent-Radio-828@reddit

In high school they asked you to cover the books with paper bag coverings. DOE books are expensive and they expect these books to last for about 15 years, then they buy new updated books.

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AsideLost@reddit

I always liked to use the comic section from the Sunday newspaper. Didn’t hold up as long tho

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LikelyLioar@reddit

Yeah, why don't they do this anymore? It seems like a good idea.

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TeutonJon78@reddit

Do most kids even have textbooks still instead of tablets/Chromebooks?

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LikelyLioar@reddit

Oh. I don't know. I'm child-free.

They could still wrap their phones.

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gale_force@reddit

"Child-free" is so cringey. It's like how vegans tell you they're vegan.

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koei19@reddit

They were responding to a direct question, it's not like they just showed up in the thread and announced it or something

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gale_force@reddit

You're correct. Their answer to the direct question was "I don't know."

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koei19@reddit

So you're mad that they volunteered a single iota of information beyond the bare minimum necessary to answer the question?

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CantFindMyWallet@reddit

And now you decided to share that feeling by making everyone else cringe?

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gale_force@reddit

I'm not alone. And statistically you're likely a bot.

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CantFindMyWallet@reddit

This is how you get through your day, huh?

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MajesticLow@reddit

😂😂😂😂😂 I think that is an amazing idea. 😊😊😊😊

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Electronic_Rope4178@reddit

They have chromebooks, my daughter is 17 and don’t recall her ever having actual textbooks after probably 3rd grade.

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audiate@reddit

Books don’t have lifespans long enough to benefit from it.

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Lensgoggler@reddit

I still do this. I buy craft paper by the roll and wrap my kid's school books and notebooks

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Books are given by the school and returned at the end of the year so it's important they stay more or less nice. My mom was even more cool: she had a roll of old wallpaper. That paper lasted the entire year on the book, very sturdy!

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LikelyLioar@reddit

For some reason we started using contact paper in my family. I could never get it smooth.

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audiate@reddit

Freshman year. I got shamed in front of the class for not knowing how to cover my book as a homework assignment. Mr. Byrd showed me, condescendingly how to do it in front of everyone after saying, “If there’s anyone I hate more than irresponsible students it’s irresponsible volleyball players.” I loved volleyball. I quit him, not the team.

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this_knee@reddit

Now that the grocery stores all turned back to paper bags, they probably will soon.

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

This was crazy. So I did this from 1st to half of 3rd. At the time I was going to a catholic school on the east side of town where I walked to my sitter’s house after school. Come to a new town, public school and suddenly this practice stopped and throughout the rest of my years at school was never done again (even attempts to replicate were threatened with suspension (at the time a new concept, before, punishment meant detention) and fines for damaging school property).

Things like this was that culture shock I had moving to a new town going from my little Catholic school with its Dominican Sisters as principal and teachers and 10 to a class vs going to a public magnet school (with uniforms that literally looks like what inmates wear) and pushing 30 to a classroom. It’s like I stepped into a new decade overnight.

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Internal_Praline_658@reddit

I usually used the comics sealed and reinforced with clear packing tape

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theelephantupstream@reddit

Recently a 30-y-o said to me, “Remember like when your mom used to put those plastic covers on your school books and they had cool patterns on them and everything?” Umm fucking no ma’am I do not? Do you mean the Grand Union bags I put on my books myself at 10 pm the night before the second day of school?!

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