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September 3, 2006 by Rich Whittle | 2 Comments

AgapePress:

The Home School Legal Defense Association is expressing concern that eBay has banned the sale of teacher’s guides through its online auctions, a move that could drive up the cost of instructional materials for home-schooling families.

The new eBay policy prohibits “the sale of teacher’s editions of textbooks and solutions manuals that are intended solely for use by teachers.” The online auction site says the policy is designed to prevent people from making illegal copies of the teacher’s guides. However, the ban has drawn the ire of many home educators.

“What we’ve done as a members’ benefit,” Smith says, “is we are going to have a kind of ‘eBay’ where folks can sell [used] textbooks with the teacher’s guide.”

So, in a few weeks, the home-schooling advocate says, HSLDA will begin providing an alternative to eBay for its members. This is a welcome solution for home-schooling families, many of whom were troubled to learn of eBay’s new policy, he observes.

“A teacher’s guide has the answers to the questions,” Smith says. “It has a lot of good information. It’s a lot thinner than the actual textbook, of course.”

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