+1,323 You're curious as to how they get all of the photos for textbooks. Do they have an archive, or is there a big photo shoot day? "Okay! We need a mother in a wheelchair and a daughter with brown hair painting a kitchen wall yellow at a 45 degree angle! Make it happen," amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Seeing as I know a little about this stuff, no I don't wonder, but the way you worded this is hilarious and therefore I agreed.. kudos

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've always wondered this, especially for my Social Studies book, where they have pictures of floods in very specific areas (like a certain area in India). I just think, do they randomly hear about these things and decide to put them in their book?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

they use stock photos

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I really want to know the account name of the OP. I'm sure most, if not all, of their posts are worded amazingly. haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The "make it happen" was beautiful.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't know, but maybe they advertise these things saying, "NEED RACES OF EVERY KIND. WE ALSO NEED SOME KIDS IN WHEELCHAIRS. WEAR YOUR WORST POSSIBLE 90s CLOTHES."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hahahaha so true about the terrible 90's clothes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They have photo shoots. they contact modeling agencies, put kids in ugly clothes and wheelchairs, and make them do stupid activities in fake classrooms. lol. I'm in a Harcourt math textbook for 6th grade.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And the kids in the problems always have really ethnic, old-fashioned, or unusual names, plus a couple of kids with really common names. "Yoshiko, Tabitha, Julio, Olga, and Kevin are painting a wall that is 6 feet tall and 9 feet wide..."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lol!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I remember every year in my math textbooks there were always a few problems with someone named Tabitha in there, no joke.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hahahaha made my day :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my friend was in a photo shoot for a text book

by Anonymous 13 years ago