This is just backwards.
The Highlands School District School Board spent millions on a new football stadium, and now will not give even $10,000 to support the Allegheny Valley Community Library - the community libraries that are open when the schools' libraries are not.
There is so much that needs to be done in this area to promote even basic literacy. Does the school board care?
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For the leaders of that school board to care about literacy would be nothing short of ironic.
Evidently we are not thinking about our tax dollars when we are willing to spent monies on public libraries when we have a fantastic library and computers already in our schools.
We tax payers are hit hard enough.
Don't you care where our tax dollars go. Or don't you care where your school taxes go?
Anonymous, yes, I care.
In order for the schools to be successful in their mission they need to maintain effective partnerships with other local agencies, both public and private. Without those partnerships the schools would have to expend far more tax dollars. The Community Library has been one of those key partnerships.
When children are given research assignments as homework how are those without a personal computer supposed to do it if the public libraries are not open after school hours? How late in the evenings are the school libraries open now? What are the weekend hours for the school libraries? What would it cost the district to keep each of the school libraries open for the same hours as now provided by the community libraries (staff for the school libraries, security for the school buildings, etc.)?
The school board's decision was penny wise and pound foolish.
I had to hunt all over the school district website to find the hours for the high school library.
According to the Student-Parent Handbook: "Any student may use the library before school (7:20 – 8:00 AM) and after school until 2:50 PM. Periodically, the library may be closed for classes. Students should listen to the morning announcements to hear when the library is open."
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