One of AOs old science book has rabbits incorrectly classified as rodents; if old books that are so inaccurate, why is AO using them?
A.I think that most of the things that are going to have changed are going to either: 1) be so minor that it doesn’t really matter if the child learns the “wrong” information, or 2) be the types of things that we’ll recognize have changed and be able to tell them. In the bunny example, growing up and thinking that rabbits are rodents isn’t really going to be a big deal. I was taught as a child that rabbits were rodents and found out after college, while researching to learn more about my pet guinea pig, that they aren’t considered rodents any more. If I’d never learned that, I’d still be a productive adult. It would be a bigger deal if I’d become a vet, but I would have learned it in some of my vet classes. I’d never become a vet based on the animal science I’d learned in the second grade. Sometimes people bring up changes in names of countries here, but that’s the type of thing that’s going to be easier to correct. Even if you, the teacher, don’t know that a country’s name has changed
