Procrastinating parents: School starts in just a few weeks; have you bought your kids’ textbooks yet? There’s still time. And for parents of upper school students at one area independent school, there’s more than once choice of textbook suppliers to consider. Three years ago, a group of seniors at Gilman School devised a clever way to raise money for the school. Former Gilman student council members Rishi Bedi, Zane Macfarlane, and John Chirikjian launched a textbook service dubbed the Blue Grey Book Drive, allowing their classmates to sell back their old school books and buy ones for the upcoming school year—with proceeds going directly back to the school. Perhaps even more appealing to prospective customers is this: the student-run book drive guarantees customers cheaper prices on textbooks and bigger refunds on buy-backs than MBS, the supplier of choice for scholastic textbooks. Since the inception of the textbook service in 2011, members of Gilman’s… Read More
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