It must be the crazy time of the year. I got an email from the VP this
afternoon asking if I have been coming in late as he is getting complaints
that I am not opening the library on time. It seems that the teachers must
be here 1/2 hour before classes begin - especially those with study halls,
and he thought I should have the library open that same time. And, of
course, students feel that if they are here and I am here, I should have the
doors open for them.
Well, the problem with this is that the principal specifically set my hours
as 8-4 so that I would be here after school to help students. He gave me a
full period in the day to help get some of the things done I must do, and
has told me to block in more time if I need it, by occasionally asking
teachers not to send study hall students some periods. This I do not abuse,
of course.
So, I emailed the VP with this info, he replied that he just wanted to be
sure the library was open the posted hours. - Of course, he should know the
posted hours as he has Freshmen who come in for Orientation and he sat
through my intro four times in which I repeatedly told the boys the hours
the library is open.
So, now I think I will make a special point of stopping by hi office in the
morning to say hi and let him see that I am here on time...Oh, thank
goodness the Christmas Break is coming.
Toni Koontz
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Media Specialist
St. Charles Preparatory
www.cdeducation.org/schools/sc
Columbus Ohio
Carpe Diem
-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]On Behalf Of Galloway, Melissa Kay
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:17 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Librar Free Time
Hi Everyone,
I thought I would share something that the second grade teachers at my
school have done. They are unhappy because I have too much "free time." We
are set up on a semi flex schedule where k-3 grades come to the library
every other week (they go to computer class the week they do not have
library). They seem to think that since I do not have a classes straight
through from 7:45 until 3:30 that I have too much time on my hands. They
went as far as to add up every minute of free time that I have (including
the 5 minutes between classes and my lunch time although everyone at my
school has a duty free lunch) and gave a list to the principal to show all
the "free time" that I have. They also included open checkout time (which
we have from 8:00 - 8:45) as part of the "free time" I have each day. I
found this quite funny because they had me having between 3 to 5 hours a day
free time every day of the week! I guess they don't realize the number of
books that have to be shelved, processed, etc. I wonder how much free time
they must have to spend it figuring out all of my "free time." Luckily, I
wasn't the only one being picked on, they did the same for the computer
teacher which follows the same schedule that I do. I wonder what they will
think when we go to a complete flex schedule (as the principal has said that
we will be doing soon).
Has anyone else had similar complaints?
Thanks for listeing to me complain about complaining!
Missy Small
Moss Hill School
Kinston, NC
mkg0522@mail.ecu.edu
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