I'm sorry to disagree on this one. If the teachers would send THE KIDS to
the library to check out books instead of creating their own mini-library
in the classroom they wouldn't have to worry about children taking the
books and then being liable for them. It isn't any better to let teachers
get away with losing books than it is for kids to get away with it. We're
in our jobs to help keep such a situation from arising.
Shelley McCoy
Library Media Specialist
Farragut Middle School
200 West End Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37922
phone 865-671-7016
fax 865-671-7048
email: mccoys@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
On Sat, 3 May 2003, Guusje Moore wrote:
> This thread always pops up around this time of year. Many of my teachers
> checkout upwards of 200 books for their classroom libraries and come the end
> of the year, some turn up missing. It would never occur to me to charge them
> for the books since it's most likely the kids have taken them (my school is
> low income and some kids have very fuzzy concept of what's mine and what
> isn't). In fact if I did charge them they would stop checking out books
> which would rather defeat the purpose of the library in the first place.
> We're supposed to connect children and books....and most of the times the
> books come back but every now and then they don't.
>
> I just mark them as lost and move on. I've been at the school 12 years and
> only once have I asked my principal to hold a paycheck (standard policy in my
> district - no end of year paycheck till all textbooks, equipment etc is
> accounted for). In that particular case it was very apparent from the list
> of titles that the teacher - who wasn't returning in the fall - was building
> herself a personal library at our expense.
>
> Guusje Moore
> Librarian,
> Housman Elementary School
> Houston TX
>
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