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Julia's story about the Principal having to step in and check out books
struck a nerve. Recently I had a teacher who wanted a book. I was talking to
another teacher at the time. The teacher I was speaking to wanted to be
clever and said "Oh, you want to check that out? Here, I can do it. It's so
easy I teach my kids how to do this!" She then proceeded to try and check
out the book.
Of course, she ran into two problems and I had to bail her out. What gets me
is that if they need the library during summer school they won't pay anyone
to run it. Teachers are just put on the honor system to borrow and return.
But come inventory time, I'm the one trying to account for the lost books.
I feel that my library is just like a business. I can't think of any other
area in the school where a person would go in and just do someone's job for
them unless they had been cleared or trained.
Would you do the DP clerk's job just because you wanted a student number?
It irritates me when the school treats my job as "anyone can do this". They
have no idea! Most of them wouldn't last a month!
Connie Rosenberry
McDonald Elem.
Seffner, Fla.
rosenber@gte.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "glassmaid" <glassmaid@JOBE.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Just Venting
> Dear Julia,
>
> I was out of the building yesterday and they didn't get a sub for the
> Morning. Three classes arrived at once to check out and the Principal had
to
> step in and check out. He also had to get a teacher a new VCR Because a
tape got
> stuck. Just because classes are not scheduled that doesn't mean I am not
> working.
>
> Victoria Rubottom
> East Elementary
> Waynesville , Mo.
> glassmaid@jobe.net
>
> Julia Steger wrote:
>
> > The content of the message about having to teach reading, including the
bit
> > about the teacher who cheered, really gets on my last nerve, as they say
> > here. Maybe some of us have wonderfully flexible schedules in
elementary,
> > but there are others among us who continue to be seen as purely planning
> > time providers-- and any time without a class is up for grabs for extra
> > duties to be assigned, and teachers harp and complain make snide
comments
> > and believe the job we do is "easy".
> >
> > I was recently at a conference and listened to a highly-educated
speaker,
> > with many years of library experience, enthuse about advocacy and about
> > effective collaboration in the upper grades between librarian and
teachers.
> > When I suggested that some advocacy needs to be done for the elementary
> > folks who are under such stress and are asked to meet so many demands
and
> > sometimes treated unprofessionally, and that if we were treated as more
than
> > planning time and given time to collaborate, she would see REAL
performance
> > improvement in the students we elementary people send on, the speaker
looked
> > as though a completely new, unheard of light bulb had just come on in
her
> > brain.
> >
> > Why?why?why? does elementary school librarianship CONTINUE to drag on
this
> > way? I am transferring to a middle school next year and the person who
> > takes my job will have 6-8 classes a day, 5 days a week in a new school
of
> > 650 students.
> > A treadmill existence. One clever person on this listserv described it
as
> > the Death March.
> >
> > I have been so fortunate to have principals who gave me as much flex
time as
> > they were able to, so I am not complaining about my own experience,
believe
> > me. I just feel so badly for the people on this listserv who are
treated
> > the way the aforementioned writer is being treated and I expect it would
> > take a national revolt of some kind to ever change things.
> >
> > Just venting,
> > Julia Steger, Librarian, Clifton Forge Elem E&W, Clifton Forge VA
> > *******************************************************
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