Publishers of teachers materials do not verify the employment status of individuals ordering teacher's editions. I applaud Ebay for their caution and consideration, but in this case it makes no sense. I have ordered teacher's editions from many publishers and school book vendors. I was never asked if I was a teacher or a student. I HAVE ordered many Saxon Math Teacher's editions from Ebay for my homeschool.
MANY homeschoolers prefer to sell their books as a set, student and teacher edition. If this policy continues I see a mass exodus to yahoo groups designed to sell their TE
As a homeschooler I have bought most of my curriculum used through ebay - your policy of not allowing teachers guides makes it very difficult on us as homeschoolers. I basically will be buying all new or off local swap boards this year. Ebay will lose nearly all my business because I will have no reason to come here.
Ebay is a format where people can easily buy and sell a large variety of curriculum. In some cases, this may be the only way for people to find unique homeschool items.
Teacher's editions for textbooks traditionally offer more than solutions, they offer teaching tips, schedules, and extensive activities. Any teacher in a classroom does NOT rely on their teacher's guide to provide their only form of sttudent assessment. To not allow the sale of teacher's guides on Ebay hurts the entire institution of education from the classroom to the home-schooling room whereby educators are not given an opportunity to purchase out of print or expensive materials needed for direct instruction of their students at a more reasonable and fair market value.
PLEASE reconsider the sale of Teacher's Editions and all teacher's guides on Ebay.
Those of us who homeschool are also teachers. We need to be able to buy and sell teachers' editions and answer books to aid us in educating our homeschooled students.
Homeschool parents need to be able to buy and sell curriculum to support their children in their education. We spend a great deal of $ to educate our children as it is.
Ebay has been very inconsistent (which is grossly unfair) in enforcing this policy. I have seen some teacher manuals sold while other auctions for the exact same teacher's book(s) are cancelled by Ebay. Unless Ebay wants to become an expert in the ISBN and photographic appearance of all types of teacher manuals, they should allow them to be sold. This policy is grossly unfair to the honest buyers and sellers who are trying to sell or buy homeschool or antique books and materials. Why should the cheaters and criminal types be the ones who determiine the policies of a giant corporation like Ebay? Ebay is not the educational police and should not put themselves in the position of preventing school related cheating. (Leave this to the the schools.) Student who cheat will pay the price in their own knowledge voids which will hinder them in class and in life. Why should a wonderful company attempt to "parent" these unruly children? Won't the SAT's and other tests weed them out and put them in the place they deserve? There will always be children who try to appear as more than they are by cheating. If you stop them one way they will be sure to find another way to do it on some other site. Why should Ebay have to waste their time on such nonsense-they have a company to run? If the publishers are threatening to sue Ebay, they will have to sue every other website that sells new and used teacher books, too. Perhaps the parents who are trying to buy their homeschool materials could bring a class action suit against Ebay for being biased against them or better yet, a lawsuit against the publishers who are treatening Ebay. --Deborah Reames
I am a teacher in a public school. I have no problem with supporting parents that choose to homeschool. Education is the bottom line. How they get there is secondary. Please reconsider your policy..rework it if necessary but somehow re-open this avenue of info
It is not ebay's place to stop the sale of materials that I can use for my children. You are telling me that I can not make the decisions for my own children.
As a homeschooler I should have the opportunity to buy needed materials. When I buy them from retailers online, there is no problem, so there should not be a problem for ebay.
I homeschool my children and rely on ebay to buy/sell curriculum including teacher books. If a student really wants to cheat, the will always find a way. Please don't punish all of us by banning the sale of teacher books!
