Shame on Ebay! You are being used by groups that failed to make homeschooling ILLEGAL, and so now seek to make the supply of textbooks impossible for homeschoolers to purchase. If they can't make it ILLEGAL, let's just make it IMPOSSIBLE. It accomplishes the same thing in the end...
I really need to buy Teacher Edition books for several of my homeschool programs. I was depending on eBay to find these items. Some books are no longer in print and will be hard to find otherwise. Students who wish to cheat are cheating themselves in the end. Many harmless things can be used the wrong way. The individual has to make good choices for themselves. I have home schooled my daughter for six years and bought many teachers editions on ebay. I usually buy other things too when I shop for the TE's Sincerely, Tasha Stanton
This policy has a direct impact on homeschooling parents using e-bay. The books many of use are purchased through companies as sets with teacher manuals. These sets are available to anyone who is willing to buy them through a particular vendor. Harcourt has a site for homeschoolers although they mainly supply in bulk to public schools, Abeka is designed for homeschooling parents. No restrictions are needed by ebay when these products are available to everyone certified public school teacher or not. In my state homeschooling parents are the teacher/ administrators of private schools which are not accredited. Thank you for your consideration in removing this policy.
I am a homeschooler and I rely on the used materials on ebay. I homeschool 3 children and we don't have a lot of money to spend on curriculums and books. The school system cannot help my special needs children, and by eliminating this from my resources, my children will be greatly hindered. Come up with some system that homeschoolers can verify by a credit card that they are over 18 and do some sort of agreement that they are homeschoolers. You can put it on the ebay profiles for each account. Just figure out something that doesn't penalize the honest people.
Publishers who market their products to home educating parents desire, and in fact expect, that their 'teacher's editions' be sold in markets such as eBay, where parents can access them. eBay's policy unfairly discriminates against parents who exercise their right and God-given duty to educate their children.
I couldn't believe when I heard about this policy. The tests kids could cheat with aren't in these books--no teacher is stupid enough to use these tests.
I have purchased and sold teacher's manuals for my children's curriculums on eBay. I also have planned to sell more as they outgrow the ones I have to recoup the costs. eBay continues to change their policies to benefit large "power" sellers through increased fees and now rules such as this one that do nothing but stymie the homeschooler. We depend on eBay for quality curriculum content. Deleting seales of teacher's manuals will only hurt teacher's and homeschoolers that have few other venues for affordable used materials.
If a student can log on to eBay and order teacher manuals to cheat, they are probably smart enough to order from publisher as well!! Leave us homeschoolers ALONE!!!!!
