Re: [LM_NET] Elem: Book Fairs

[Guusje Moore <guusje@MINDSPRING.COM>]

Where is it written that you have to put out the JUNK in the first place?
I'm from a low SES community too and it galls me to see the kids spending
money on pencils, erasers, posters (which get crumpled before they ever get
home) and other junk.  

I solve the problem by refusing to sell it.  In fact I tell the kids I'm not
going to sell it because the fair is in the library and I'm a librarian and
I want them spending money on books not stuff.  It makes perfect sense to
them.  And to me.

Granted, my profits aren't nearly as good but I feel much better about the
entire endeavor.  I also use the week prior to Book Fair to teach lessons
about figuring the tax and rounding numbers. 

I will admit to having been at my school for 16 years and running one of the
better library programs in my district so that let's me get away with things
that others might not be able to.  

Guusje Moore
Librarian, Housman Elementary School
Spring Branch ISD
Houston TX
guusje@mindspring.com

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