Wow! When I think of the number of years that book fair has been a major source
(sometimes only source) for library funds, that is scary. While I run book fair in
conjunction with parent teacher conferences, it would still cut into the sales to
not be able to sell during the school day. Plus do you pull everything down during
the school day or try to teach with all the displays up? Yah, that will work. It
seems to me that one person's complaint was not thought through with the effects on
the big picture. Perhaps that one person would like to donate the lost funds to the
library? Is the problem the monopoly? Get the complainer to organize another way to
get books to kids at a reasonable cost. While your district is small, one person's
complaint shouldn't scuttle the whole deal, IMHO.
--
Pam Gelbmann, Media Specialist
Wilson Elem. MN
Pam.Gelbmann@comcast.net
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information librarians provide us
with floaties and teach us to swim."
--Linton Weeks, Washington Post, January 13, 2001
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Cheryl <csturgeo@NEO.RR.COM>
> How about the school fun raisers held every year at most schools including
> ours where we don't offer an opportunity to buy books but actually turn the
> students and their parents into sales people? We use instuctional time to
> have "assemblies" to tease the kids with incentives. We all do this because
> we are not receiving the funds to run our schools.
> I am shocked that one complaint can be handled this way with such a sweeping
> ban without at least some debate about the possible mertits of the book
> fair.
>
> Cheryl A. Sturgeon
> Elem. Media Specialist
> Highland Local Schools (OH)
> csturgeo@neo.rr.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Wagner" <Ron.Wagner@VANSD.ORG>
> To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:30 PM
> Subject: RANT:Anti-Scholastic movement in my district
>
>
> In our 2500+ student district, one parent complained that Scholastic has a
> "monopoly" on book orders and wanted the distribution of book club materials
> stopped. Our district lawyer agreed, and took it one step further: We can
> no longer have book fairs that are open during "instructional time" because
> we do not want to allow a company to sell things to kids while they should
> be learning. We'd have to have it open only during recesses or after
> school. With our 675+ kids, that would not work, so we stand to lose
> hundreds of dollars of book money for classrooms.
>
> Has anyone else even heard of this?
>
>
>
>
>
> Ron Wagner
> Teacher-Librarian
> Felida Elementary School
> Vancouver, WA
> ron.wagner@vansd.org
>
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