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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #788
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Darlene Newton <reneenewton@yahoo.com>
Subject: Homeschoolers
Good Morning Everyone,
Please excuse everyone, I am sending this to PUBYAC as well as CSC
members in my region.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don't stop reading this because there are two important issues I
need advice on.
1) I will be starting a story hour for Homeschoolers
in our area. There are 125 Homeschoolers in
Grayson County alone. Is anyone else doing this,
and if so, do you have any advice or suggestions
for me? Any help anyone would care to give me, I
would deeply appreciate.
2) The Superintendent of our school system has passed
a new ploicy in that teachers here are not allowed
to encourage or even physically touch a child in
any way whatsoever, and if a teacher is caught
doing this, then he/she will be reported to the
Social Services. My question is this, I am
assuming we are to a certain degree considered as
teachers. So, does this policy go for me as well?
Does this mean that, when all my children come
running to me and throw their arms around me in a
big bear hug, am I not allowed to return the hug?
Anyone having suggestions or ideas, please e-mail me
at reneenewton@yahoo.com.
Thank You
Darlene Newton
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:52:36 -0500
From: Deborah McClish <Deborah@rockford.lib.il.us>
Subject: RE: CLASSROOM LIBRARIES
Hello,
I can think of several reasons teachers should have classroom libraries, if
my assumption of a class library is correct.
1. Most departments have standard curriculum from which they are required
to work. If several teachers come to the media center to check out the one
or two copies of a particular title needed for a lesson, most of the
teachers will be sorely disappointed (or put out).
2. Teachers are busy people and sometimes just don't have the time to run
to the media center to verify a fact, etc.
3. Students sometimes "run out of things to do." A classroom library
would
give a teacher quick materials to occupy a bored/noisy student during
designated study time.
4. Teachers are the experts of their classroom/subject (or at least they
should be). Therefore, it would be less time consuming work for you if
teachers have their own libraries. They could pick up books they think will
work well in their class. If they do and feel the media center should have
a copy or two, they can let you know. This would help guarantee the
materials you choose will be used and give you time to develop other areas
of the media center where you are the expert.
These are just an off-the-top-of-my-head response from a librarian, not a
teacher, at eight in the morning. Hope they help.
Warm Regards,
Deborah McClish
Librarian, Youth Services
Rockford (IL) Public Library
deborah@rockford.lib.il.us
http://www.rpl.rockford.org
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From: sgould@cybergal.com [mailto:sgould@cybergal.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 4:54 PM
To: PUBYAC
Subject: CLASSROOM LIBRARIES
Help!
My principal suggested that since we are developing the media center so
well, that teachers shouldn't be allowed to have classroom libraries!
What can I tell him?
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