To add my two cents, on Friday the same teacher sent a student for the
fourth time in a week to "just get a couple of photocopies from the
library." I stopped what I was doing and did his clerical work the
first three times. On the fourth, I sent the student back with a note
to accompany the copies. It said, "The following five teachers have
spares during this block (names). The next time you need copies made,
please send a student to ask one of them." He came to apologize at the
lunch. They just don't think sometimes.
Karen Lindsay, Teacher-librarian
Reynolds Secondary School
Victoria, BC, Canada
lindsaykp@shaw.ca
On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 06:11 AM, Diane Lungaro wrote:
> Missy,
>
> All I can say is "WOW !!!". I think your second grade teachers have
> "too much time on THEIR hands" if they can take the time to figure out
> when you are "free" !!! Tell them I said to get a life !
>
> On the other hand, I do realize that many people, teachers included,
> simply do not realize that school librarians basically have a double
> job. We are performing many of the same duties our public librarian
> counterparts do, yet we are also teaching our students. No matter how
> you look at it, there simply are not enough hours in the day to do
> everything we must do !
>
> Keep you chin up and I hope your administration supports your efforts.
> It is a real shame that this group of teachers behaves like this !
>
> Good luck,
> Diane
>
> "Galloway, Melissa Kay" <MKG0522@MAIL.ECU.EDU> wrote:
> 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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