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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
This goes beyond not being good for the stated purpose. This makes no sense for the stated purpose.
Sure there is the fact that the librarian has no evidence that removing the incentive to read as many books as possible will make kids read more, but the timing for changing the rules is all wrong. Unless she just planed on publicly embarrassing the kid. I mean it was made clear that everybody was aware of who reads the most books. By the rules of the club, the kid who reads the most books would get the acknowledgment with a prize that on occasion was a certificate of acknowledgment. She planned on changing the rules before the announcement of the winner explaining how this overachieving kid was taking the joy out of participating for everyone else.
Getting a public lecture instead of the prize that you worked for seems pretty demoralizing, so either the librarian hates overachievers on principle, or is personally set against this one.
Hey, hold on there, do you mind moving that goal post back? Nobody talked about children that hate reading being in the club. In case you missed it, I don't even agree with your opinion that there are children in the club who haven't found the joy of reading.
The mom didn't call being upset that her son would possible not win anymore. She called because she thought that her son's efforts were about to be acknowledged for the fifth time. The librarian hadn't changed the rules at this point. She got upset that she can't change them now.
All kids that go to school read. The goal is to get them to read more by introducing them to new topics, and by getting them focused on reading for the duration of 6 weeks. It's not like they don't know this kid from school or from the library, and they don't know that he reads more than them even without a book club or competition in sight.
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I donīt agree with you, you donīt agree with me, in fact to me it seems you misinterpret everything I try to say. Fine, you can feel whatever you want but you canīt change my mind.