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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am with you, OP. And its easy enough to impose the limit specifically on a child who isn't returning books. At my son's ES, a child may borrow 2 books at a time. If he hasn't returned last week's books, he may not borrow new ones. His name is on a list for that class. My child is pretty good about remembering -- he is enough of a reader that he is in the library exchanging books more days than not -- but if he goes too long with a book, he is placed on the list and he will tell me first thing after school and we'll get the book into his backpack.
I would email the teacher and ask for more info. At least lets s/he know you don't like the policy and s/he will have to think harder about it.
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Guess what? It's most likely not the teacher's policy. It most likely comes directly from the media teacher or even directly from admin if it has become a rampant problem. There are not endless funds to replace books that are not returned. When it continues to happen the collection of books for the whole school becomes depleted and there are not funds to replace them. Even though bills are sent home when books go missing for long enough, the majority don't actually pay them. So then the book remains missing from the collection and the school is not reimbursed in order to replace it. Same thing happens with guided reading books that aren't returned. They are sold only in packs of 4-6, so if one book is never returned there aren't enough for an entire reading group and the school has to order an entire new pack, which is expensive.

Solution? Teach your child to put the book in their backpack directly after reading it. Treat it like you would their glasses or their lunchbox. That way if your child has trouble remembering which day is their book exchange day it will always be in their backpack just in case. If they are not finished with it, they can renew it during book exchange and bring it back home. Read it, put in backpack, rinse, repeat.

-teacher[/quote]

You should know better as a teacher that collective punishment is crap and terrible teaching. Restricting access to books (for the kids who return theirs is worse). It's probably not the classroom teacher, but the library/media teacher's policy. Again complain. If it's the principal's policy, complain up higher. The ONLY thing this teaches kids is that if their neighbor forgets to bring their book back, everyone is responsible and that withholding access to books and literacy is acceptable punishment.

-another teacher[/quote]

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