How about the school fun raisers held every year at most schools including
ours where we don't offer an opportunity to buy books but actually turn the
students and their parents into sales people? We use instuctional time to
have "assemblies" to tease the kids with incentives. We all do this because
we are not receiving the funds to run our schools.
I am shocked that one complaint can be handled this way with such a sweeping
ban without at least some debate about the possible mertits of the book
fair.
Cheryl A. Sturgeon
Elem. Media Specialist
Highland Local Schools (OH)
csturgeo@neo.rr.com
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From: "Ron Wagner" <Ron.Wagner@VANSD.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:30 PM
Subject: RANT:Anti-Scholastic movement in my district
In our 2500+ student district, one parent complained that Scholastic has a
"monopoly" on book orders and wanted the distribution of book club materials
stopped. Our district lawyer agreed, and took it one step further: We can
no longer have book fairs that are open during "instructional time" because
we do not want to allow a company to sell things to kids while they should
be learning. We'd have to have it open only during recesses or after
school. With our 675+ kids, that would not work, so we stand to lose
hundreds of dollars of book money for classrooms.
Has anyone else even heard of this?
Ron Wagner
Teacher-Librarian
Felida Elementary School
Vancouver, WA
ron.wagner@vansd.org
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