Yes, PP, different for this generation. |
This is not correct, at least for elementary. Media specialists do all their own purchasing of books. |
Oh Suzie Scott. |
Oops didn't want to include quote. Sorry. |
Oh the poor librarians. My favorite people having to deal with these idiots. |
HB 0785
Freedom to Read Act Sponsored by: Delegates D. Jones, A. Jones, Atterbeary, Ebersole, Wilkins, Fair, Feldmark, Grossman, Mireku-North, Palakovich Carr, and Wu Status: In the House - Passed Enrolled Analysis: Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised) Synopsis: Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school library media program; prohibiting a county board of education from dismissing, demoting, suspending, disciplining, reassigning, transferring, or otherwise retaliating against certain school library media program personnel for performing their job duties consistent with certain standards; etc. https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0785?ys=2024RS |
Our MS, lets kids adopt a shelf and come in at lunch to make sure everything is in place. The shelves are labeled with the kids names. My kid really enjoys that...and loves to be out of the cafeteria. |
Library is another gathering place to eat lunch since cafeterias are apparently not for eating these days, not enough space to fit thousands of students in high schools but even if cafeteria could fit a few hundred, students eat in other areas of the school. |
Granted, my youngest is in high school, and I graduated in 1990. But we had a library, and an AV room for all the carts to wheel in the overhead projectors and TVs. Heck, our middle school even had a purple mimeograph machine. |
Don't call me old! |
I have a real problem with the idea that kids in government mandated settings are provided with graphic content by adults who are not their parents. That is not "book banning" and it doesn't make me an "idiot." If you would like to have your child read such a book, go to the public library, where attendance is optional or buy the book yourself. In fact, if you are worried about equity, you can start a nonprofit to buy graphic content for kids and distribute them free of charge to their homes. But in a place where families are legally obligated to send their kids? No, have some humility. |
There are a wide array of books available in the library. No media specialists are purchasing materials you consider graphic to force children to read them. These are available for kids to select if they wish - just like the public library you suggest going to. I'm not sure what you think is happening in the library but you seem misguided. |
A) What constitutes graphic content would have to first be explicitly defined. Is it the statue of the David, is it discussion of private parts and basic biology during Sex Ed or Anatomy? B) Books being available for check-out is not the same as them be provided to an individual student. C) Public schools are not government mandated places. Educating kids between 5-18 is the mandate, but parents have choice about where that education can occur (public, private, at home). |
MCPS media specialists are not allowed to go rogue and put anything they want on the shelves. Books have to be reviewed and approved for specific grade levels with two signatures from other media specialists or teachers. Your opinion may differ from theirs, but every book on the shelves has been approved by professionals to be appropriate for the grade levels that are in that building. If you find a particular title offensive, you are free to challenge it with the school. |
Do they clean the library each day after students use the space to eat lunch? |