Dave Smith > wrote in
:

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> When I was in elementary school the first thing we did when we got our
> text books was to put covers on them, usually with plain old brown
> paper. We could put whatever we wanted on the outside of the covers
> but would be in deep doodoo if we wrote in the books. It seems much
> different today. Kids do not cover the the books, doodle all over the
> outside and write inside them and underline or highlight sections.
>
>
>

My 10th grade biology textbook (or maybe it was 9th grade) had an
illustration of a penis over an anatomic illustration of an open mouth.

the book had had only one owner previously, and my friends and I had a
good laugh.

Saerah (never minded hilighted/underlined passages though)