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I spent last year in a small, rural North Georgia Title I school and was on
the receiving end of these kind people. My principal almost fell to the
floor when I told her that a huge shipment of old National Geographics that
had been donated over the holiday was promptly moved to the trash by me. She
was flabbergasted that I threw them out and couldn't wrap her mind around
the fact that NGs from 1970 were no longer useful. Of course, then I'm asked
"Why didn't you give them to the art teacher to cut up for pictures?"
Sigh...


On 1/24/08, LINDA WILSON <WILSON_LINDA@salkeiz.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
> Interesting thread.  I have to say, the well intentioned "nobless
> oblige" can apply right here at home.  When I arrived in a district and
> high school that were new to me, I immediately began weeding the fiction
> section.  There were many many books that were 25 and 30 years old with
> uninspired pastel covers, and which had not circulated for 10 to 20
> years.  I was putting them on a cart in preparaton for shipping to the
> district warehouse for disposal (per the district policy), when one of
> the Vice Principals dropped by the library.  She informed me that I
> needed to first put these on a cart for students to choose, because
> students in the area were so poor that their parents could not afford to
> buy books for them.  The message being that if it's not good enough for
> everybody, it was still good enough for poor folk.  I know she meant
> well, butI was offended.  However, as I was brand new, I did not say
> anything.  What I did do was quietly ship them to the warehouse.
> Actually, someone told me that this VP routinely went through boxes on
> the loading dock and retrieved materials she thought were still useful,
> so I loaded the boxes in my own car and delivered them personally to the
> warehouse.  Nothing was ever said and my fiction section was much
> improved.
>
> Linda S. Wilson, Library/Teacher
> McKay High School
> 2440 Lancaster Dr. NE
> Salem, Oregon 97305
> wilson_linda@salkeiz.k12.or.us
>
> "Knowledge is of two kinds.  We know a subject ourselves, or we know
> where we can find information upon it." Samuel Johnson
>
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-- 
Susan Grigsby, Teacher-Librarian
President-Elect, GLMA
Elkins Pointe Middle School
Alpharetta, Georgia
susan.grigsby@gmail.com

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