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