I see many students each day without pencils. I work in an area that has
an unemployment rate over 50%. Having a pencil is a battle I choose not
to fight. I order a bunch through the school at the end of each year
then take them home and my husband cuts them in half with his band saw.
It will cut a whole pack in seconds. Cheap and easy way to get twice for
the money. I hand out the end without the erasers first. Now other
teachers in our school and at the elementary often bring pencils to my
husband to cut in half as well.
Jennifer B. Brown
Librarian
Navajo Middle School
Navajo, NM 87328
505-721-5305
jbrown@gmcs.k12.nm.us
Radical Militant Librarian
>>> "Knapp, Maggie" <knappm@TRINITYVALLEYSCHOOL.ORG> 10/2/2007 12:28 PM
>>>
I find a box of the golf pencils (available at our local Staples and
probably most office supply stores) will last the whole year for our 600
students. The box is about $6.50 for 144 pencils. We keep 1 or 2 by
each OPAC, and while they do occasionally disappear, it isn't a big
problem.
Ms. Maggie Knapp
Middle School/Upper School Library
Trinity Valley School
7500 Dutch Branch Road
Fort Worth, TX 76132
tel: 817-321-0100 x410
fax: 817-321-0105
knappm@trinityvalleyschool.org
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Toni Koontz
[akoontz@CDEDUCATION.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:24 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Pencil wars
I have some that I can sell , especially at exam time when the boys are
very
stressed. and must have a black pen for the answer sheets. I collect
all
left behind pens and pencils - keep them in a cup by the computers and
by
the OPACs. It is interesting sometimes, when a student reaches for a
pen and
says ' Hey - this is where I left it." The Maintenance men gather
them
from the floor as they clean and drop them off , also.
But, the boys are expected to always have a pen and pencil with them
for
every class.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus, Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo" <acuseo@BKHS.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Pencil wars
> Amen and Amen.
>
> I've given up on provding pens, pencils, and especially tissues. I
tell
> the students I am not a drug store or Wal-Mart. We claim to be a
college
> prep high school - and if that is true, then the students need to
bring
> supplies from home.
>
> I believe we enable students too much and then that service becomes
> expected.
>
> Allan
>
>
> Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo, MGC
> Director of Library Services
> Bishop Kearney High School | A Golisano Education Partner
> 125 Kings Highway South
> Rochester, New York 14617
> 585.342.4000 x231
> 585.342.4694 (fax)
>
> www.bkhs.org
> College Prep. Plus.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Gail Smith" [gsmith@EDISON.CPS.K12.IL.US]
> Date: 10/02/2007 12:49 PM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Pencil wars
>
>
>
> The pencils that I loan out in classes sit in a large vase on my
> desk, attached to large silk flowers. It completely ended the excuse
> that, "I forgot to return your pencil," and adds a touch of color to
> the room.
>
> On the other hand, for use at the OPAC, why not put the
> responsibility back on the students and stop providing pencils at
> all? Are they surprised that they are needed? Did they not know
> they were coming to the library? In my library, I am constantly
> finding abandoned pens and pencils that go into the "Abandoned
> Pencils Cup" no matter how chewed up and nasty, eraser or not.
> Anyone is welcome to use one of them and when I get complaints, I
> just tell them that their own pencils are not nasty, so they should
> bring their own. In theory, these should be returned after use, but
> sometimes a child who has no pencil (economic reasons, not just
> forgetfulness) has come to get one and I don't make an issue when
he/
> she doesn't return it--I just look at it as helping a child preserve
> their pride.
>
>
> Gail Smith, NBCT
> Librarian & Tech Facilitator
> Edison Regional Gifted Center - Chicago, Illinois
> gsmith@edison.cps.k12.il.us
> "In the nonstop tsunami of global information librarians provide us
with
> floaties and teach us to swim."--Linton Weeks, Washington Post,
> January 13, 2001
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Gayle Hodur wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a good way of keeping pencils by the OPAC? Ours
get
>> stolen constantly - we can easily go through a dozen in a day. I've
>> tried
>> tying them down, I've tried taping a flag on them that says "This
>> is not
>> my pencil." I really don't like to make them come and ask me for a
>> pencil
>> every time, but that's what it's coming down to.
>>
>> **************************************************************
>> Gayle Hodur
>> District Librarian
>> Soledad Unified School District
>> ghodur@redshift.com
>>
>>
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