the principal admits:
"We're not only behind other schools in the state, but we're behind other schools
in the district," Light said.
"Part of the transformation involves physically restructuring the library by
subject....
"Theater teacher Marushka Waters and Assistant Principal Robert Lima spent the last
few weeks preparing the layout, volunteering many nights on the project, Light
said. Athletic Director and football coach Brad Sidwell and the football team spent
some time yesterday moving the racks, books, desks and chairs, and will return next
week to finish the job."
What a shame! They have NO CLUE what they are doing.
And the librarian they mention who was laid off is a member of this listserv.
How awful to see years of dedicated professional service destroyed virtually
overnight by a bunch of people who have no idea what they are doing, and who, the
principal admits, are behind the eight ball to begin with.
He just put himself behind the eight ball that much further by destroying his
library and laying off his librarian.
Did the guy never write a paper and need the help of a librarian in grad school?
college? high school?
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Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
Librarian
Damrosch Day Treatment School
NYC Department of Education
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"Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed
without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in
my life." - Malcolm X
"Some kids go to the library ... Others to the street. But they can't go to the
libraries if the libraries are closed." - Officer Dombranski, NYPD
"Kids are living stories every day that we wouldn't let them read." -Josh Westbrook
"The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with
other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to
write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with
characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result." -
Louis Sachar
"Our schools are filled with kids who have been treated badly all their lives. They
don't tell anyone, because there is shame in being treated badly. Many-girls and
boys-have been sexually mistreated. Still others struggle in fear with sexual
identity. They respond with eating disorders, cutting, suicidal thought or action.
I can't tell you how many letters I've received from kids who found a friend in one
of my books, a character who speaks to them. And if I get those letters, think of
the letters Walter Dean Myers, or Lois Lowry, or Judy Blume get, thanking us for
letting them know, through literature, that they are not alone. In light of all
that, there's really only one thing to say to the censors. Shut up."-Chris Crutcher
________________________________
From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Gail Grainger
Sent: Fri 8/7/2009 3:05 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Franklin High changes
My sister lived in Franklin, MA when her children were born. They
moved before her children started school, because the town did not
support education. That was 9 years ago. I think this proves that
things are worse now, with what they have done to the HS library.
Like Heidi, I don't find anything "intuitive" about Barnes & Noble.
Gail
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Gail Shea Grainger
Librarian, Chesterfield School, Chesterfield, NH
Dewey Browse --K-12 Web site cataloged by Dewey Decimal Classification
http://www.deweybrowse.org <http://www.deweybrowse.org/> ggrainger@deweybrowse.org
Past President NHEMA
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