University Textbook Controversy: Are Forced Purchases Impacting Student Grades?

University Textbook Controversy: Are Forced Purchases Impacting Student Grades?

2024-03-05 05:54:46

A female netizen posted an article complaining that the teacher of general studies requires everyone to order new textbooks at the same time and cannot buy second-hand textbooks from seniors or sold online, otherwise it will affect the teacher’s rating. (Picture/reproduced from Dcard)

University textbooks are usually ordered by the class at the request of the teacher or purchased by themselves. Unexpectedly, a female netizen recently posted a complaint saying that their English teacher in the general education class requires everyone to order new textbooks at the same time and cannot purchase them by themselves. Second-hand textbooks are sold on the street, and if students do not order new textbooks from the same manufacturer, their subsequent grades will be affected, making her question whether this is reasonable? Netizens also said bluntly, “You can already send a letter to the principal’s mailbox to express your condolences” and “It’s hard to say that it’s a little extra money.”

A female netizen recently posted on Dcard as “Is it reasonable for university general education teachers to require textbooks?” published an article on the topic and revealed that an English teacher in the general education course asked them to buy a 425 yuan textbook, but the original PO said, “I want to say that I used the same book in high school and read it, so I want to buy it together with my classmates. Let’s look at this together.” Unexpectedly, the teacher said that if you don’t have a book, you will be deducted points.

So in order to save money, she decided to buy second-hand books online, and finally found a textbook that only cost 310 yuan including shipping. Unexpectedly, the teacher sent a message in English followingwards asking the original PO why he didn’t order from the primary school teacher? He even threatened, “If you don’t order a book from the little teacher, I will deduct points.” This made the original PO feel extremely disadvantaged, “Forget regarding asking to buy books, I actually spent more than 100 yuan to buy books from him, in order not to be regarded as me. It’s better to apologize to the Shopee seller, cancel the order, and then order the book from the little teacher.”

(Picture/reproduced from Dcard)

The original PO even posted a screenshot, indicating that the primary school teacher later sent a message to the general education group to remind, “The English teacher said he wanted everyone to order books from one manufacturer so that he might ensure that the content is correct. If you have already ordered, the money If you have already paid, forget it, but the source of the book will affect his score, so remember everyone must buy the book.”

After the post was exposed, it also triggered heated discussions among netizens. “You can already send a letter to the principal’s mailbox to express your complaint. But be careful that this may cause the teacher to bite you back and accuse the teacher of miscommunication.” “The English teacher in our school It’s also ridiculous. Even if he forces us to buy books, we must also buy the latest version of the one he wrote. You can’t buy it from the senior sister. The content has not changed, but he shuffles the chapters and rearranges them every year.”, “Report directly There are many channels.” “Return it. This kind of thing has been going on since the beginning of school. It’s this kind of forced buying of books that keeps deducting points. Please avoid it if you can.” “The source of buying books will affect your grades. It’s very annoying.” That’s reasonable.”

Some netizens also questioned, “Restricting sellers is abnormal”, “How can a teacher who doesn’t know why can restrict the channels for students to buy books? He probably just wants to get kickbacks from manufacturers”, “Is this a profit-making manufacturer taking back kicks? I’m lying to you, or are you students? Understand this”, “The teacher just wants to earn kickbacks, otherwise why would he threaten you with deducting points if you don’t order with him? This can be reported, right?”, “University textbooks are really used to enrich the pockets of certain teachers”, ” It’s hard to say what a little extra money is.”

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