Re: HIT: damaged books

[Cheryl Bybee <cbybee@TENET.EDU>]

Sorry Anne, I can't agree with you...it may not happen at elem. school
but I can guarantee it will happen at middle and high school...I've been
there.
BTW...we don't let students have books that they have had to pay for.

Cheryl



On 4 Oct 1995, Anne T Knickerbocker wrote:

> Kim and all, I truly don't think that a child would damage a book just so
> that he could keep it.  There are so many other ways to keep the
> book--never check it out in the first place and have it just disappear, or
> check it out and then report it lost...  I also have a sneaking suspicion
> that if a child was so desperate to own the book, maybe he SHOULD have it.
>
> Anne Knickerbocker                           Cedar Brook Elementary
> Librarian                                    2121 Ojeman
> SBISD                                        Houston, Texas 77080
> aknicker@tenet.edu                           (713) 365-5020
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Kim Sherriff wrote:
>
> > Many stated that if the student pays for the book, then they give it
> to them.  However, my library aide with almost 20 years experience has
> the fear that kids will damage a book (such as Stine's Goosebumps and
> other popular ones) so they can keep it.  WE are in a rural community
> with no public library in sight so this is a  real possibility.  Almost
> everyone said that a good way to avoid future  damage is to show them
> damaged books and teach them a lesson it ie.  ask them "What could have
> caused the damage, What could have been done to  prevent the damage,
> etc". > >
>
> Kim Sherriff > GRIMES@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
> >
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