School Librarians Are Being Interrogated by LAUSD Lawyers
School librarians, or teacher librarians as they referred to in Canada, must have both teaching certification and library-media certification. Most have Masters in Library and Information Science on top of their teaching credentials.
In urban schools that do not have active middle class parent groups who insist on libraries on librarians, school libraries are being shut down by bean counters and technofools whose virtual brains tell them that poor children in their segregated and computerized testing camps don't deserve a library or a librarian to guide them in research skills and in choosing good literature, either fiction or non-fiction. And thus, the caste system adds a new level of inequality and indignity on top of crippling poverty.
This scary story is from AlterNet:
In urban schools that do not have active middle class parent groups who insist on libraries on librarians, school libraries are being shut down by bean counters and technofools whose virtual brains tell them that poor children in their segregated and computerized testing camps don't deserve a library or a librarian to guide them in research skills and in choosing good literature, either fiction or non-fiction. And thus, the caste system adds a new level of inequality and indignity on top of crippling poverty.
This scary story is from AlterNet:
Last night, the Canadian radio broadcast, "As It Happens," featured a remarkable story about what's going on in Los Angeles public schools, as officials grapple with a budget crisis. Librarians -- more specifically, teacher-librarians, are being escorted to the basement of an administration