GEN: Check-out of dictionaries and novel sets

[Vicki Asper <love2read@PRODIGY.NET>]

Dear colleagues,
    My principal and I have decided that next year we will allow the
students (rather than the teachers) to check out one dictionary and
one novel from a class set.  Then if a copy was lost, we would know
which student had used it.  I am getting tired of the "I'm not paying
for that book, a student lost it" complaint.  (Actually, they can
complain all they want.  I don't sign their check-out sheet until all
items are handed in.  If the check-out sheet isn't signed, they don't
get their paycheck.)
    At our school, items that a student checks out are due the
following week since I usually see them once a week.  However, I know
that dictionary and classroom novels take more than a week to finish.
How long would recommend having these items checked out?

Thank you.
Vicki Asper
Media Coordinator
Rockfish Hoke Elementary School
Raeford, NC
love2read@prodigy.net

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