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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It won't work. The push toward private schools is just an attempt from right-wingers to allow religion into the classroom.
I'm sure those libraries suck. The problem I'm having is a duplication of resources from two governmental agencies. The result is a waste of tax dollars. Consolidate those resources and only have one agency provide the books for children.
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Oh please. The push towards private schools by "right-wingers" (like me) has nothing to do with religion. My family isn't even close to being religious. It has everything to do about education quality. I'm lucky that I can afford to send my kid to private school and am not stuck with the crap school assigned to me by where I live. It's a shame the poorer people, the ones liberals supposedly care about, don't get the same choice.
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/2010/1...sort-industry/
Link showing how asinine our current system of school assignment is.
The original suggestion of kids getting books from the school libraries is silly. A school library serves a small group of children, maybe 500-750 in a large elementary school. Each school can have a small collection of books, but there's no way they could come close to the amount of books available in a full community resource like a library that serves all the children in a community.
According to census data from 2000 (way out of date) my town has about 24000 children under the age of 10. Our town libraries are accessible to each of those 24000 children, no matter what school they attend. Split that collection up among the 40 or so elementary schools in the town and each school library now only carries 2.5% of the books as the library system. Do you only duplicate popular books? Does each school library carry different books? If so, do children from other school have access to the books not available in their school?
School libraries are a great resource for kids to easily get books without needing a ride to the library, but expecting them to have anything close to the selection of a community library is ridiculous. I used to take books out of my school library every day I was in school, but still looked forward to my family's once a week trip to the community library where I had a much bigger selection of books to choose from.
-Marcy