I'm not sure what the situation is in every state but in Iowa there
are provisions where private school students and home schooled
students can dual enroll and take advantage of various services
offered by the public system. We bus every eligible student
regardless of which school the child attends, students are offered
"special" education services in their school -- such as speech
therapy, remedial reading; home-school students regularly attend PE
class (students are assigned to a particular attendance center for
this), they are able to attend AP courses in science and history for
example, and library services are routinely offered to all students.
The full $ amount is not provided but there is a partial state
accommodation for these dual enrolled students.
So if that is not the case in your school you might negotiate with
the school to either dual enroll so your school does garner some
funds with part going to the library budget or ask your school board
to set a "fee" for non-public school use of the library. Could you
work out a traveling collection from the public library that would
suffice or augment your collection? There must be an amiable
solution as after all our goal is to build readers and although I
understand the $ issue and frankly support it wholeheartedly I also
have the ultimate goal in mind -- Get children READING! So how can
this be done without sacrificing your children and their access?
Sharron
At 8:38 PM -0700 10/17/05, Mark Williams wrote:
>No publicly-funded school has an 'obligation' to service students of
>parents who have voluntarily sent their children to private schools.
>Yes, the parents 'pay taxes', which go for many things besides
>schools....police, fire, roads, etc. On the other hand, public
>schools are funded on the basis of the students they directly serve,
>i.e the average daily attendance figures (ADA)... so much money each
>year per student attending. This also includes Federal funding....
>so many dollars per eligible student served in special programs per
>year. The students in the private school across the street are NOT
>generating ANY income for your school. Those parents and that
>school are in effect asking for a free ride. Ask them (politely) if
>your students could come and use their bathrooms each day (and of
>course, you would not provide any toilet paper, soap, or cleaning
>services), or if they could come and borrow the desks and chairs
>from several of the classrooms at the Christian school. After all,
>that is exactly what they are asking to be able to do...use
>resources they did not pay for and deny them to those who did.
>
>I would stress to your principal the smallness of your budget and
>the thin-ness of your resources...along with the fact that every
>book borrowed by the kids across the street is one less for his or
>her school's students to use.
>
>Sorry, but this is a sore point with me. Implicit in the action of
>voluntarily removing your children from a public school and sending
>them to a private school is the acceptance of the fact that you are
>also giving up any claim on services provided by the public school.
>
>
>At 09:39 AM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
>>Our public school library has been asked if the kids
>>from a Christian school across the street may come over to check out books
>>from our library.
>
>Mark Williams
>Consulting Librarian
>Professional Services for Conferences, Districts, Workshops
>markwilliams@makaw.net
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Sharron L. McElmeel
http://www.mcelmeel.com
McBookwords (a literacy organization)
http://www.mcbookwords.com/
Instructor - University of Wisconsin-Stout
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/childrenslit
3000 N Center Point Rd
Cedar Rapids, IA 52411-9548
ph. (319) 393-2562
fax (319) 393-4749 (If line is busy, initiate a voice call and ask
that the line be made available for a fax transmission.)
mcelmeel@mcelmeel.com
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