For several months now, The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School has been without a professional in the library for several months. For years there had been a professional in the library, but alas, there is a professional no more. What is the The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School to do without one?One can safely assume in a place such as The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School in which a premium is placed on the students having a happy good time learning, reading, and writing. One can assume that students needs and having a library professional in place would take precedence over those with ego and control issues. Sadly, The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School is not such a place.
Not only is there not a professional in the library at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School, but worse, the library is closed. Closed by a (CENSORED!) due to no library professional on staff. Why? Spite mainly. But more so out of having to control everything at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School.
One could ask why not ask those that are not of a professional nature to receive training and volunteer their time on a rotating basis in seeing to the upkeep and professional duties at the library at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School? Yes, these volunteers won't bring to the table the full library experience that a professional does but they will be just as valuable in providing services to the students that are always deemed to come first and that the (CENSORED!) claims are so important.
These volunteers can be in the library supervising the students, checking books in and out and re-shelving books. The dividends would be extraordinary. Students will be able to check out books and have a lifetime love of reading. Maybe the hours won't be the entire school day, but something is better than nothing.
There are also computers in the library that not only the students don't have access to, but staff as well. For some reason the (CENSORED!) seems to think this is a good thing. Students can't access learning and staff are unable to work on their craft.
But this is life at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School. Where everything, down to how one shall make a proper doody is in the school handbook. The North Korean government is less controlling of its citizenry than the (CENSORED!) at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School.
Only a few months? The last three schools I have been at (2 as ATR, this last one appointed) have had no librarian for a year or more. Librarians, like reading teachers actually teaching READING, are an endangered species. At least the vanishing librarians occasionally get mentioned in the blogs and the press. No one seems to notice the vanishing reading teachers.
ReplyDeleteThis is an absolute outrage. Of course each classroom does not have such a large and great variety of books. It would only make sense to allow the students to borrow books from the school library. How can a school have Research & Information teachers/specialists on 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade & not a school library? One would think the word research alone requires more than a class set of books.
ReplyDeleteIt is incredulous to think that with so much emphasis placed on student success in reading, writing , language arts, etc.,there is no functional library. How can staff and administration constantly preach to students about the importance of developing reading skills and follow that up with the message that it's not really that important, otherwise we would provide access to the library so that an appreciation for literary skills could be developed and reinforced? Has anyone asked your administrators how they justify this policy? Isn't someone curious enough to hear what their response would be?
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