Re: Middle school help

[CAROLAN@IDS.NET]

Michael--If the furniture is *truly* representing a hazard to students
then push for safe furniture and more shelving at a minimum.  I cannot
understand the refusal to increase budget for library...except trying to
save $.  Canyou enlist help of the 6th grade teachers and parents?  Get
some hard facts from INFORMATION POWER  and the COLORADO STUDY on the
proof of well staffed and bugeted media centers in the education of
children.

Have you brought out your point of view to the powers that be all along or
did you assume they knew the right thing to do and would do it? Sounds to
me as though you need to enlist some background help from the other media
specialists in the system and teachers and parents.

From the sounds of it your district approximates ours in size.  And from
my experience the parents' voice is the one heard in times like these.

carolan@ids.net
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