It's that time of year again when school boards start giving out the
figures for next year's budget. Many schools are already being told that
cuts will happen yet again.
The following quote could be very useful.
This quote is from Jim Trelease's book, The Read- Aloud Handbook 4th
edition (1995) Paperback
ISBN: 0140469710 page 146.
In chapter 6, on Home, School, and Public
Libraries, in a discussion about libraries and the budgeting for
libraries he says:
"Community and education decision makers, .... who cut or eliminate
libraries are demonstrating how little they know about reading - and
doing it publicly. For example, nearly everyone agrees that reading is the
most important subject in school, since nearly all the other subjects rest
upon it. And the research ... that shows the best readers in thirty-two
nations came from the schools .... with the most library books. But the
powers-that-be don't know this because they don't read professionally. So
they cut the library budget or eliminate it entirely -- and still expect
the scores to rise. That's like digging up the airport runways and
expecting safe landings."
Randi Louise Hermans
BCTLA Second Vice-president: Advocacy
Teacher-librarian
East Chilliwack Elementary K-6
Chilliwack, B.C. Canada
rhermans@shaw.ca
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