Sounds sad--or is it scary--and all too familiar. I guess I need to find a
"football coach" to speak for me.
Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
Brooklyn, New York
basyak10@hotmail.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:03:56 -0800
> From: lhslibrarian@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: GEN: Rant- priorities and influence
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> OK, I am just seething today over several things, not the least of which is
> library pink slips. So hit delete now if you don't want to hear a cranky
> old man vent.
>
> In 2008 our district passed a bond that included doubling the size of my
> library and remodeling it, including a real textbook room. Along comes the
> housing meltdown and a new superintendent and now there is not enough
> bond money for a new library-- a second gym, a pool at another site, yes,
> but not a library expansion. Meanwhile our textbook shelves are literally
> disintegrating. 3 student aides barely escaped injury when a section
> collapsed and several hundred textbooks fell. I was in the back computer
> lab and it sounded like a train was coming through the building.
>
> Administrators were notified, photos were taken, emails were exchanged, and
> meetings were held. That was 6 months ago. Since then another collapse
> crushed a steel ladder. We took the ladder to our shop teacher, who happens
> to be our football coach (a good guy and a library supporter). He took a
> look at the ladder and walked into the Principal's office and said that the
> storage room was a lawsuit waiting to happen and something had to be done
> (almost verbatim what I said several times over the last few months). Just
> 24 hours later maintenance is here, shaking their heads and taking
> measurements, getting ready to fix the shelves.
>
> So now I know. Go through the football coach if I want anything done.
> Maybe he can get the AC fixed in our back lab (it has only been ten years
> now). I am going to ask him to speak at the next board meeting.
>
> AAAARRRRRGGGGGGG!
>
> Tony
>
> --
> Tony Doyle, Teacher Librarian
> Reviewer for School Library journal
> Livingston High School
> 1617 Main St.
> Livingston, CA 95334
> lhslibrarian@gmail.com
> tdoyle@muhsd.k12.ca.us
> http://www.lhswolves.org
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