Re: [LM_NET] in loco parentis

[Paula Yohe <paula_yohe@YAHOO.COM>]

Sometimes I wonder what has happened to common sense --
  No one has a budget to purchase everything --
   
  So if a school someone works in does a huge unit on the Civil War and not much on 
the Revlutionary War ---
   
  And they buy just about everything on the Civil War and hardly anything on the 
Revolutionary War  -- are they censoring???? or just using common sense
   
  One of the first things I did in library school was a community survey -- 
  know your community
   
  so if you know your community and don't buy a specific title that doesn't fit 
with the community -- you are censoring???
   
  LOL
  Common sense - somewhere it went out the window......
   
  Paula
   
  

rshull <rshull@GREENAPPLE.COM> wrote:
  So, What's approriate? Should I purchase a fiction book for my high
school that gives a detailed description (using anatomically correct
terms, of course) of 17 year olds having oral sex? Would it justify
buying if it is an award winner? Or would I be accused of censoring for
not puchasing it? I can fit anything into the state content standards
so aligning to the curriculum really a good reason to purchase/not
purchase. 
Library Media Specialist
Amanda Clearcreek SD
rshull@greenapple.com


-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Toni Koontz
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:58 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: in loco parentis


Here is where working for a private school has the advantage. Parents
need 
to agree with the mission of the school to enroll. Thus, when I am
acting 
"in loco parentis" I know that means that the parents will be agreeing
with 
my decisions.

In all my years of experience, I have seldom refused to have a book
because 
of concerns that I have been reading about. I have chosen one book
over 
another for various reasons: cost, easier to understand, more likely to
be 
read by my students. Once, in the 80's, I did put aside a book about Rio
de 
Janeiro that was part of a series I ordered. It showed numerous photos
of 
nude beaches. I was in a grade school ( k-8) and knew that it would be 
inappropriate given the age of the students as well as the mission of
the 
school. The information was readily available in another book that I 
ordered. So, I wasn't exactly censoring as choosing the better of the
two 
based on my patrons needs. These are decisions that as a professional I 
make.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St.Charles Preparatory School
Columbus,Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Brooks" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:49 PM
Subject: in loco parentis


> Hi,
>
> So as we act in loco parentis, we "protect" a child from a book. Do we

> act on behalf of what we perceive a majority of parents think and 
> feel? Are people that homogeneous? What of the parent who supports 
> intellectual freedom with a child in a school that censors?
>
> Laura
>
> Laura Brooks
> Library Media Teacher
> Amerman Elementary School
> Northville, MI
> brooksla@northville.k12.mi.us
>
> "Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,
> nothing is going to get better. It's not."
> -The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
>
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Paula Yohe
Director Of Technology/Library Media Center
Dillon School District Two
405 West Washington Street
Dillon, SC 29536
Phone: 843-841-3604 Fax:843-774-1214
paula_yohe@yahoo.com
 
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