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Textbook Committee Meets

By Antonio D. French

Filed Thursday, October 20 at 2:25 PM

A new textbook committee began meeting October 17 to evaulate social studies textbooks for middle school. As of October 12, district administrators were still looking for parents to sit on the committee, but as one parent said, "if you wanted to do a good job, you'd couldn't do anything else for the week."

The committee meets in the Carr-Lane Middle School's library from 4-6:30 every day. A different publisher presents his or her company's products each day. Committee members are supposed to examine them and then fill out a form each night grading the products that they have seen. On Friday evening they will see one more publisher, tally the results of their grading, and vote on a recommendation to the chief academic officer.

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