With tongue firmly planted in cheek--
Perhaps you should offer to let her select the books that should be banned
for her child, due to the inclusion of the word "stupid". Get a stack of
post-it notes for her to slap on any book her child should not read because
of language that she knows is in the book. Once she sees the impossibility
of knowing the words to every page of every book, she might see reason.
--Removing tongue from cheek
Gail Smith, NBCT
Librarian & Technology Facilitator
Edison Regional Gifted Center, Chicago
gssmith. ergc at gmail. com
Currently reading: The Lost Symbol
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mary Beth Roche <MRoche@edaff.com> wrote:
> Here, Here!
>
> Mary Beth Roche, MIS
> Library Director
> Allied Medical & Technical Institute
> 517 Ash Street
> Scranton, PA 18509
> 570-558-1818 Ext. 1927
> Fax 570-342-4537
> MRoche@edaff.com
>
> The approach of Christmas brings harassment and dread to many excellent
> people. They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and they never know what
> to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three weeks of hard and
> anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they are so dissatisfied with
> the result, and so disappointed that they want to sit down and cry. Then
> they give thanks that Christmas comes but once a year.
> -Mark Twain
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: School Library Media & Network Communications [mailto:
> LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Harry Coffill
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:28 AM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Response note to parent re book choice
>
> Terri-
>
> Are you sure you want to get in this fight?
>
> I would certainly agree to not check out ANY books to her student if that
> is the parents wish. It is not your job to screen material for individual
> students, merely to follow your district selection policy. I would attempt
> to have that conversation in front of the student, as well, so she
> understands the reason she may not check out materials.
>
> Harry
>
>
> Harry F. Coffill
> hcoffill@egrps.org
> Media Center Specialist
> East Grand Rapids Middle School
> Drama Department
> East Grand Rapids High School
>
> There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the
> library.
> -Ray Bradbury
>
> >>> On 12/16/2009 at 3:23 PM, in message <
>
>156717178.2586851260995014753.JavaMail.root@sz0167a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>,
> Terri Jeffrey <tljeffrey@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
>
>
> I'm in need of a written response to a parent that does not want their
> child (Kindergarten) to check out books with the word "stupid" in them. She
> has made the suggestion that this is due to poor monitoring of the students
> in library. Of course, this is totally not the case, simply a different
> view of what my job is and what her job as a parent entails. Does anyone
> have anything already written up as I know this has happened to many of us
> many times.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Terri Jeffrey
>
> Library Media Specialist
>
> Little Cedars Elementary School
>
> Snohomish, WA 98296
>
> tljeffrey@comcast.net
>
>
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