HISD to eliminate librarians, turn libraries into discipline cen

Who is going to be responsible to ensure kiddos check books in and out appropriately?

Having taught for over 30 years, I offer a bit of a different perspective-A disruptive student can keep an entire class from learning. I only removed one student in all of my years, but it was necessary for the other students (fyi-he never caused another problem). We've all heard horror stories about some of the discipline problems in the Houston schools. This might be a necessary step to ensure the rest of the students can learn. I'm guessing that in the beginning, those discipline centers could be crowded, but hopefully things improve quickly. As much as I hate to see the elimination of libraries, it might be a partial solution for all the problems in HISD

Now the kids at these schools will have to go to the disciplinary instead of the library. Sad that they have come to this juncture.

Gigix4: Gigix4: Jesus. How long have I been gone? What year is this? Kids still do that ole timey stuff? Is searching for paper books a skill kids even need to have anymore? I thought libraries are where homeless people go to sleep and expose themselves to librarians who get paid to post on social media all day.

sweetie : That is the worst case scenario imaginable!😢