A collague of mine (secondary TL) started having her
aide call homes at 7:30 each morning. Got telephone
numbers through the school database.
Amazing how many books came back each day when that
got around. Almost eliminated the problem.
--Ken
--- "Glasgow, Joanne" <GlasgowJ@HSD401.ORG> wrote: >
Hi folks,
>
> I work at a HS so I alway wonder if the notes I send
> home via US Mail ever
> make it into the parent/guardians hands. I stopped
> holding report cards
> because after making a big deal of it, spending
> hours and hours hounding the
> kids and holding just the 16 worst offenders, those
> report cards were still
> on my desk at the end of the next semester with the
> fines still not paid!!
> Then I looked at the grades -- I should have
> threatened to hand deliver them
> to the parent at work instead!!!
>
> Basically I do what I can and try not to visiably
> mourn over the lost of
> books I really liked!
>
> Joanne Benson Glasgow
> Library Media Specialist
> Evergreen High School
> 830 SW 116th Street
> Seattle, WA 98146
> 206-433-2311 ext 235 or 236
>
>
> "It is known that knowledge is power, and power is
> energy, and energy is
> matter, and matter is mass, and therefore large
> accumulations of knowledge
> distort time and space. This is why all bookshops
> look alike, and why all
> second-hand bookshops seem so much larger on the
> inside - and why all
> libraries, everywhere, are connected"
> The Science of Discword, by Terry Pratchett,
> Ian Stewart & Jack
> Cohen
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jennifer Davidson
> [SMTP:jdavidson@SOLOMON393.K12.KS.US]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 6:53 AM
> > To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Kids paying for books
> >
> > I have found that when I send a note home with the
> replacement cost, =
> > books come in much more quickly! =20
> >
> > I am going to be making it a policy for next year
> that students who did =
> > not return or pay for all books this year will
> only be able to check out =
> > one at a time, as opposed to the other kids (k-2
> may choose 3 books, 3-6 =
> > may choose 5 books). This will allow the 'repeat
> offenders' to check =
> > out, yet there will still be a consequence for not
> having taken care of =
> > their obligations.
> >
> > I am also trying mild bribery in this, my first
> year: as each class =
> > gets all their books turned in, they get to have a
> library party- =
> > popcorn, sugary candy, Goldfish, etc. Hopefully
> this will work, because =
> > last year the school board cut the extended time,
> and I now leave at the =
> > same time as all the other teachers. I will not
> be coming in over the =
> > summer to do inventory when previously, the
> librarian had two weeks =
> > after school and two weeks before it begins in the
> fall to deal with =
> > inventory, etc.
> >
> > Thanks to everybody who posts- I don't know what I
> would do w/o LM_NET. =
> > I consider it one of my most crucial professional
> resources.
> >
> > Jennifer Davidson, MLS
> > jdavidson@solomon393.k12.ks.us
> > Elementary Librarian
> > Solomon USD 393=20
> > Solomon, KS
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Toni Koontz [mailto:akoontz@CDEDUCATION.ORG]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:13 AM
> > To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Kids paying for books
> >
> >
> > Years ago I changed the wording to reflect that
> any monies I charged for
> > late, lost or severely damaged books were "fees".
> Unfortunately, you =
> > can't
> > always change the wording on reports that are
> printed out.
> >
> > Toni Koontz
> > akoontz@cdeducation.org
> > Media Specialist
> > St. Charles Preparatory
> > www.cdeducation.org/schools/sc
> > Columbus Ohio
> > Carpe Diem
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