There will be plenty of well deserved celebration for our two LEVEL 4 schools, CONNERY and HARRINGTON emerging from that status to make it to LEVEL 3. However we need to examine closely their progress to determine just what was most responsible for their forward impetus. It has been heavily reported that the schools received extra funding due to their past poor performance.
They have won in their race and now they will soon be sharing the vanishing spoils of victory. The finding that propelled them forward will soon be all spent and the fight will begin to prevent relapse. Hopefully going forward it will be realized that the library played a central role in creating an envuroment where learning was valued.
Libraries are not just quiet places to store books and work on term papers but are in fact monuments to Education.While itis not only important to establish a desire for learning, you need a place to express it.
I agree that libraries are important for our students and they should be in every school..however I know of some schools that have librarians who see NO students. This benefits no one and is a complete waste of money!
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good point. If the libraries go unused then it becomes easy to and appears justifiable to eliminate them. So in a perfect world we have to have aggressive "book ladies (or gentlemen) running the libraries and developing creative ways to keep up the traffic. The importance of the library needs to be embedded across the curriculum.
DeleteYou bring up a good point. If the libraries go unused then it becomes easy to and appears justifiable to eliminate them. So in a perfect world we have to have aggressive "book ladies (or gentlemen) running the libraries and developing creative ways to keep up the traffic. The importance of the library needs to be embedded across the curriculum.
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