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From: "Donna Jo Atwood" <datwood at olatheks.org>
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Subject: RE: [Publib] skipping school
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:29:40 -0500
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We have a number of home schoolers, etc., so seeing teens during school
hours is not unusual.
I wouldn't mind so much if they were reading, or surfing the net, or even
playing chess or cards, etc.  It's when they are skateboarding on the
sidewalks close enough to scare our older patrons into convulsions, or
making out in the stacks, or doing graffiti in the restrooms with certain
organic materials that I object.  
And we do have policies against these things which we have to take time to
enforce.  

Donna Jo Atwood
Reference Librarian
Olathe (KS) Public Library 

-----Original Message-----
From: Backwage at aol.com [mailto:Backwage at aol.com] 
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:27 AM
To: vabever at yahoo.com; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] skipping school

In a message dated 8/19/2006 5:57:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
vabever at yahoo.com writes:

School started this week and we're already seeing older kids playing hookie.

A few decades ago I used to skip school, take the bus to downtown L.A. and
spend the day reading among the denizens of the Central Library.  Most of
them were amiable winos, at least before lunch, when the business folk would
arrive.  I read a great deal of California history.  
 
School, as presently constituted, can only dull any decently functioning
brain.  I endorse library hooky as a method of raising the intellectual
level of the citizenry.  To professionals who disagree, I offer this
question:  What are you doing hanging around a library all day?
 
M. McGrorty