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[rockchucker]

I neither have kids, nor live in California, but I figured some folk here might be interested in this article.

Books Over 200 Pages Considered Harmful To Students

Leave it to lawmakers to replace one problem with a totally inane and dangerously misguided one. The California Assembly just passed a bill that bans textbooks longer than 200 pages, requiring publishers to shorten their tomes and include -- get this -- an appendix of related websites. The bill, California AB 756, ostensibly addresses the problem of outdated textbooks while encouraging use of the internet for learning. There are so many things wrong with this bill, it's hard to know where to begin. Well-meaning as it is, catering to the short attention spans of kids is the most counterproductive thing the state could do.

[billy-jay]

Wow.

[Roy J. Tellason]

Kal-i-forn-i-cation!

Jeez.

Lots of other interesting stuff at that site,  too.  Eurohacker:  You might want to check out this link ferinstance...
 

[debeez]

Of all the idiotic, lamebrained, short sighted...

[walks away from computer muttering colorful metaphors]