OT: Pluto Not A Planet!

Makinus · #1 August 28th, 2006, 07:52 AM

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Slick said:
Imagine all the text books that are now wrong...

In Brazil the government will only substitute the public schools books from 2008 onwards (they said it was too huge a cost to substitute for books already bought and printed)...

geoschmo · #2 August 30th, 2006, 11:49 AM

I would think most decent textbooks printed in the last decade would have at least a passing mention of the ongoing discussions about Pluto's status. It's really a non-issue. I guess if the teacher is incompetant and unable to teach without reading rote from the textbook it might be a problem. But if that's the case the students aren't getting a decent science education anyway.