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| Credit: Racine County Eye |
By Denise Lockwood in Breaking · July 21, 2014
"Members of the Racine Education Association are calling on the Racine Unified School District to stop 'weeding' school library books out of school libraries by the 'tens of thousands,' including the Bible, Koran, and The Iliad & The Odyssey of Homer.
"The Racine Unified School District is purging 'tens of thousands of books' copyrighted prior to the year 2000, according to a statement by the REA. But Racine Unified School District spokesperson Stacy Tapp said the district works with school staff members each summer to refresh the libraries.
“'We provide a list of books to the library media specialist to consider pulling from the shelves because they are outdated, in very poor condition, don’t align with curriculum or have not been checked out in many years,' Tapp said. 'There are additional factors that are considered as well. The school libraries have funds each year to replace old items.'”
Read more: http://racinecountyeye.com/2014/07/21/thousands-books-removed-racine-unified-schools/
Related: http://racineuncovered.org/2014/07/rusd-removes-thousands-of-books-from-schools/
Related: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/librarians-concerned-over-removal-of-books-at-unified/article_c58ce08e-66d3-520c-a60f-6aec92491401.html
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This is just another step in the process of "weeding out" employees. Just a few years back, there was a a librarian, a secretary, a media specialist, and at least one Educational Assistant to assist the staff and the students in the high school libraries.
Now, there is just one librarian who is left to manage all resources by themselves, including a bank of 30 computers. The librarian must depend on kids to re-shelve books, man the check out desk and do many different things, including lamination, etc.
The librarian is still left with an immense job. There is little time to do background educational support to the staff and the students. Who is hurt? The kids, of course. There is no time to instill a love of reading; no time to help find research items, to learn the difference between reliable vs. non-reliable sources.
The students miss out on extended learning and a deeper understanding of classroom lessons. Instead, school has become a "cut and paste" operation from the internet. Many kids don't even understand the concept of plagiarism vs. doing their own work.
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