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in public school, was it typical for the class to finish textbooks? as in, work through the whole thing in the course of the school year?

rarely or never
61.4%
sometimes/ half the time
19.7%
often or always
14%
n/a /didn't attend school
5%

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7:45 PM · Jul 18, 2021

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Very subject-matter dependent. In history class, never. In math or science, we usually covered the sections of the textbook corresponding to the state standards, which I assume is what you really mean by "finish".

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Public school in Italy, very typical to finish all of it, only exception was if teacher got sick or pregnant, substitutes tended to suck hard.

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never made it through the whole WW2, despite learning about Mesopotamia thrice

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You should have only asked Americans. For Example in Germany textbooks are rarely used in classes

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Suspect age bias: Older more likely went through the book: Education much dumbed down over the last half century plus; Results blatantly obvious.

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Nope. They didn't even always do the chapters in order. Skipped around.

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speed was dictated by the lowest common denominator. the slowest learner in class was the one that created the pace. this part of the reason that our school system has failed.

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This question is time specific. When I was younger the answer would have been yes. Now, education has been dumbed down and rewritten to cater to social programming… so the answer now….is no.

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I'm thinking it was deliberate. If you did the bare min you would cover the curriculum. If you were interested/motivated, you could get more. I'm thinking the C's and barely passed did the min, while the A's and B's did extra. I was a solid C+ with no homework. Could have got A's