[ISLMA-Share] Aurora Beacon-News: West Aurora cuts school librarians

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If you have a kid there, doesn’t that mean you should contact your school board members and complain?

I think the real issue is as a profession we are not advocating for ourselves anywhere enough.

It doesn’t need to be much. The easiest method is to work with the powers that be. I have a board member that was a volunteer in my school library. I have a board member that is a retired teacher from my school. I have 2 of the superintendent’s kids that were past student aides in my library. I have 2 former student aides that are the children of principals in other schools in our district. I help our educational foundation and won grants through them. Each and every one of these is a connection to a decision maker. Each and every one of these people knows something about what we do in our school’s library.

Sincerely,

Alan, Librarian serving Brooks Middle School

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education."
- Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

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I feel so bad for these kids - especially mine who is at one of these elementary schools .....

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