These Were Actually in School Textbooks

These Were Actually in School Textbooks | Photos

March 2, 2013

Here are some examples of some errors, oddities, and just plain wrong items that have been found in all different levels of school textbooks.

Although for the most part, they are all “facepalmers”. Some, though, really do make me fear for the future of our children and our country.

I wonder how many people this may have messed with.

This should have been left in the shape of a + sign, or the bars could have been created the other direction.

Dick Shaft?

I guess that means after having a couple drinks, it become illegal to have more.

Well, it is correct. Just not helpful.

Seriously?

Has to have been a southern school.

Now, I wonder how many people actually tapped it to open?

WTF???

I cannot even imagine what the purpose behind this drawing is about. Going to measure his penis?? The younger blond boy looks a bit startled.

This appears to be college-level, but still. They could have created a different diagram that wasn’t penis-shaped.

The answers could have been listed in a different order. I wonder if it was intentional…

I don’t know. What do you think? Irish? Scottish descent? Definitely not Mexican. Although there are Spaniards who sport red hair.

Someone was having fun when creating this graphic.

So sad. I wonder if the “your vs you’re” was too difficult for the book author, too.

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bad taste, Books, errors, funny, misprints, school books, schoolbooks, Textbook, typos

15 responses to “These Were Actually in School Textbooks | Photos”

PiedType

March 2, 2013 at 4:51 pm

Having once worked as a copy editor for an educational publisher, where it was my job to see that such things did not get into print, I am not without sympathy for the publishers. Still …

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1. Michelle
  
  March 2, 2013 at 5:13 pm
  
  I wouldn’t want to do it. But several shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Like the cartoon naked boy and ruler… What’s up with that? Or the definition of “trouble.”
  
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  1. PiedType
    
    March 3, 2013 at 10:53 pm
    
    I remember one incident where an editor deliberately slipped “motherfu**er” into a manuscript as a joke, on the assumption that copy editors would find and delete it. We did, but what if we hadn’t?
    
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    1. Michelle
      
      March 4, 2013 at 9:08 am
      
      That’s not right.
      
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helens1

March 2, 2013 at 5:07 pm

Publis school textbooks are published in Texas, need I say more?

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1. Michelle
  
  March 2, 2013 at 5:13 pm
  
  LOL.. nope. That says it all.
  
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2. helens1
  
  March 3, 2013 at 10:48 am
  
  oops, that public.
  
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  1. Michelle
    
    March 3, 2013 at 11:32 am
    
    LOL.
    
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El Guapo

March 2, 2013 at 6:36 pm

The “shape of one’s genitals” quote gives new meaning to the “square peg in a round hole” joke…

There should be a rule that people who write educational books should first be educated themselves.

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1. Michelle
  
  March 2, 2013 at 6:52 pm
  
  Yeah, I think that would be a very appropriate rule.
  
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thethoughtsofchairmanmike

March 3, 2013 at 8:51 am

It’s Tex-ass. What do you expect? The unfortunate situation is that textbooks are generally written for the large number of Tex-ass school districts and because of the number of students therein, are adopted by many other states within the nation. In other words what happens in Tex-ass contributes greatly to the dumbing down of America. We might could should would do better than spreading ignorance throughout the country.

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1. Michelle
  
  March 3, 2013 at 11:28 am
  
  I just got back from Houston and felt like I was was in the Twilight Zone or something.
  
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artistatexit0

March 3, 2013 at 6:48 pm

This was priceless and had me chuckling all through the post! As for the Texas school textbook issue…I thought the digital printing revolution was going to allow publishers to print just the number of books needed by each individual state?

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1. Michelle
  
  March 3, 2013 at 7:43 pm
  
  No clue. I didn’t even realize that they were published in Texas. I figured it was all over.
  
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  1. PiedType
    
    March 3, 2013 at 10:55 pm
    
    In the ’70s, a lot of those TX textbooks were published where I worked in Oklahoma City.
    
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