Descrimination? I think not. If you allow students who are not responsible
enough to return materials that they borrow, I think you are, in effect,
discriminating against the students who do; moreover, you are robbing the
conscientious students of the use of the lost materials. In my school we
have a fine system and we have this year instituted an additional
consequence, that of losing computer access. If a child from a low income
family misbehaves, is it discrimination to punish him? I think if you let
the student get away with it, you are doing that student a disservice by
robbing him of this life lesson.
Marsha Redd
Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.com
Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
Everyone is a teacher.
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From: "Brenner, Christine Salerno" <CS1221@ECU.EDU>
Reply-To: "Brenner, Christine Salerno" <CS1221@ECU.EDU>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] media center fines and access to books
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:10:05 -0400
As a middle school English teacher, I was scheduled to take my class to the
media center every two weeks. Inevitably, students would incur fines and
lose books and not all children/families could afford the fines or book
replacement costs. The result would be that the student would not be able to
take out materials. If access to information and materials is a right and
not a privilege, how can we deny students this right? And if looked at
closely, the students being denied are our most disadvantaged. I know that
we are trying to teach responsibility with this policy, but isn’t there
another way that doesn’t deny children/teens access to books? Does anyone
have any thoughts on this? Any alternatives to this media center policy you
have seen tried? Is this a form of discrimination?
Thanks!
Christine Brenner
MLS student/Language Arts teacher, Raleigh, NC
cs1221@ecu.edu
(Also, I am an MLS student. Any advice about getting into the field would be
greatly appreciated as well.)
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