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Freedomofspeech

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10. I was a librarian in a poor rural school district in SW PA...

Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:32 PM

Mar 2020

We had so much federal funding that I had the most beautiful library with over 50,000 books and beautiful artwork. It was the social center of the school. My library aides were everyone from special needs kids to the quarterback of the football team. We were family. After I retired, they renovated the school, ripped out the library and threw the books in dumpsters. They even allowed some science classes to burn some of the books.
The Media Center there now has maybe a thousand books, pool tables and tons of TV's. I realize it is a different time but this is heartbreaking to me. I still hear from so many of my former students and they all tell me the library is the best part of their memories from high school.

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The ties that bind. (book related) [View all] MuseRider Mar 2020 OP

Whether you intended it or not, that was one of the most genuine and loving tributes Atticus Mar 2020 #1

Ohhh thank you. MuseRider Mar 2020 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Atticus Mar 2020 #2

Thank you for sharing this. I'm sorry your friend is gone, but she's bound to be smiling wherever japple Mar 2020 #4

I do think that she is MuseRider Mar 2020 #12

What a lovely tribute! hermetic Mar 2020 #5

Beautiful... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #6

I lost another friend this week. MuseRider Mar 2020 #7

I was a high school librarian... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #8

Librarians MuseRider Mar 2020 #9

I was a librarian in a poor rural school district in SW PA... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #10

That is one of the saddest things MuseRider Mar 2020 #11

So nice chatting with you... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #13

Same to you. MuseRider Mar 2020 #14

My children are in Maine and Cleveland... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #15