Unhelpful High School Teacher

I've actually experienced similar situations. It's worse in college where you pay $50+ (probably triple-figures nowadays) for a book you might use 10% of.

My school used to be like that, but they gave us Acer laptops so we don't really have to use textbooks anymore

You got to use technology?! God, what life did I live?

we have computers and textbooks even though we have full digital textbooks

A measure of obedience, nothing more.