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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually hate that all schools have to have library. We had to cut science to keep a full time librarian when the Council passed that (unfunded) requirement and our school favored Science.[/quote]

+1, and it doesn't help that the Library/Media curriculum is poorly conceived to non-existent. It's not the fault of the teachers -- kids are generally in library for only about 40 minutes once a week. And they are doing so much other stuff during the week. It's not enough time to learn actual skills like doing library research. Usually it winds up just being a read aloud for younger kids and "go check out a book and read" for older kids.

Also most schools have poor library resources (both books and a space to put them in) and DCPS doesn't allocate enough money to it. This is one of the consequences of having smaller neighborhood schools, you can't really fund a strong in-house library at all these little schools all over the city.

Schools would do much better arranging for a once a month or once every two month field trip to the nearest DCPL, or where that is not possible, having someone from DCPL come periodically with a book cart and a lesson about library science, research, etc. DCPL is actually a phenomenal resource and it would be better for DCPS kids to learn how to use it well than to piddle around in these little underfunded school libraries once a week.[/quote]

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