We should take effective measures to put the policy of recycling of textbooks into real practice,says an article in Dazhong Daily.The following is an excerpt:
The Ministry of Education said on Monday that starting this spring,a system of recycling textbooks will be established in rural primary and secondary schools,which means some textbooks will be given to students by the schools free of charge at the start of a term and be returned at the end of the school term so that they can be used by other students.
The idea of recycling textbooks was raised several years ago.Now,it has become a regulation.If we want to make it work,we must do three things.
First,we must cut off the profit chain between publishers and education bodies.The key reason the system was not adopted previously - huge economic interests.
Second,we must solve the hygiene problem regarding recycled textbooks.Despite the benefits of recycling,some parents and students have kept questioning the hygiene problem.The textbooks should not become a source of diseases.
Third,we must boost the supporting measures.Textbook recycling is a complicated process,it is not a simple matter of collection and reuse.For instance,how do we deal with problems like the refusal by some parents to the use of these textbooks,and student damage to the books?