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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 06:58 AM Original message |
Teachers Told to Dumpster Dive to Build Class Library |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. That meeting is so eerily familiar I could feel my neck muscles tightening. |
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sweetapogee (449 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. my spouse |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. There is a difference between volunteering and being enslaved. n/t |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
32. Agreed. I practically had to force my wife to stop spending money on her classroom. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Are you for real? |
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sweetapogee (449 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. no |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. I know what you mean--I had thousands and thousands of children's books from when I taught. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. And your school district spends its budget on what, then, if not books? |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. My sister is married to a retired "pack rat" teacher and it's a constant problem. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. do you watch "hoarders"? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:48 AM Response to Reply #34 |
46. Not really the point of the OP |
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Erose999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
5. So they expect you to buy these materials with your own money too, right? |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
6. I'm not sure this is news. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
26. Did you miss the word "DUMPSTER"??? And if Thrift-store books are so DIRT CHEAP, |
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SomethingFishy (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
41. Yeah it's not news that the education system is fucked. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
7. What's a "leveled" library, |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:07 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. A library that contains books appropriately marked as to their 'level' so that you |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I just got one of those lists for the first time for my stepdaughter's 2nd grade class. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:44 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Books organized by reading levels |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. It is clearly a typically stupid Administrative term learned in an equally stupid Ed. grad course. |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Your reply indicates a certain ignorance of how reading is taught. |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
8. Every time I think the state of education can't get worse |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Well, the OP's a bit overhyped, IMHO. Nobody was told to 'dumpster dive.' |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. School budgets are for, you know, BOOKS. |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 03:52 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. School budgets are not for the books you keep (and take with you) or give away. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. I agree. I guess our tax dollars are only good for bombs and bailouts. |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:26 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Brains and books should be our first priority |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
13. When attending school I remember receiving a thin paper catalog to choose our own books from |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:39 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. It is Scholastics, and they still exist! I used to send home the catalogs, and |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Thank you. The day our books were delivered was always my favorite day of school |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
42. And if you order online, they give the kid's teacher free books. (You have to use the right code.) |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
33. Didn't they also do the Weekly Reader and Current Events? |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 11:07 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Yes |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Native Son was one of my favorites |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 11:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Wow |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Here you go... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. Not quite the OP's topic. |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
23. The administrator who suggested trash-diving has no business educating children. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
25. "You all with me here?" BEEN THERE TOO OFTEN! This story should be sent to the local newspaper. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
31. Who ARE some of you, defending this, claiming to have bought "1,000's" of books for students? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. A lot of people now have this mindset |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. Teachers who wanted students to have books in their homes. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:51 AM Response to Reply #31 |
47. Its insane, isn't it? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
38. Funny I've bought books for my sister to stock up her library for her students. |
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mainstreetonce (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
43. A tip |
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BrendaBrick (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Another tip: |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:47 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Well I mind |
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handmade34 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:18 AM Response to Reply #45 |
48. wow, I am with you |
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