Liberal_in_LA
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Thu Oct-13-11 04:10 PM
Response to Reply #34 |
| 40. do you watch "hoarders"? |
| -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 |
#48 |
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