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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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[–] spankmonkey 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While this is fairly common for what is literally used in class, the intent is generally for the student to read and study the rest of the text that gives additional context beyond what is covered in class. An opportunity to learn in addition to the required work.

Most teachers do not do a very good job of conveying this.

[–] pennomi 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The intent is to extract money from vulnerable young people, which is why they change the problem sets every year without changing the educational content.

[–] spankmonkey 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That is the intent of the publishers when they change frequently. If the teacher/professor gets a cut then they might share the same incentive to update regularly.

But at the core from a teaching perspective, the general reason for assigning books that might only have a portion used in class is because the teacher thinks the book as a whole will be helpful in understanding the content. Otherwise they would just recreate their own version of that chunk of information if they aren't getting a cut from sales.