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We, the parents of the students of the Golden Oak Community School, request that the position of the full time librarian is to be reinstated as soon as possible at the Golden Oak Community School.
We understand that the Sulphur Spring School District is attempting to minimize a budget deficit, but we strongly disagree that this should be accomplished through lowering the standard of pupil services.
The Golden Oak Community School library was established, upgraded, and maintained with a great amount of support from the Golden Oak PTA, which we support financially and otherwise. Therefore, we wish all that effort to not disappear. Servicing our library by an outside librarian only two and one half days a week will diminish every opportunity that our children had to access the wealth of accumulated books, computers, and other library services.
Research shows a strong link between the amount of time spend reading, level of reading, and mastery of progressively difficult reading with overall educational success, higher IQ, and future educational accomplishments. We do not wish our children to be the generation who were deprived of continuous accessibility of a school library as a haven for reading and personal growth.
Historically, the Golden Oak Community School’s Accelerated Reader program has been the most successful in the Sulphur Spring School District. We believe that one factor of this success was the accessibility of the library and the enthusiasm of our librarian, and this drove our children to their reading success.
We request that you reassess your decision to shut down our library two and one half days a week. This arrangement will barely allow our children to access the library once a week as a class. This arrangement will prohibit our children from spending recesses browsing books, taking AR test, or otherwise enjoying books. This arrangement also will make it difficult for our children to reach their reading goals, much less exceeding them. This arrangement will drive down the motivation of our children to read as it proves to them that the library, and consequently reading, is not important.
We demand that the Sulphur Spring School District Board reviews the decision to deny full time access to a library and allocates funds to provide full time librarian at the Golden Oak Community School.
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The Golden Oak children need the library open 5days a week! Many kids are stuck waiting till the following week to get more books and or ask questions. The part time schedule is not enough Quality time in the library to make the right choices on the selections of books. Plus the schedule is NOT a good fit for our school. Our current schedule is Monday, Tuesday and 1/2 of Wednesday. Well we lose some Monday's because of holidays and Tuesday is a half day for our students and Wednesday the librarian has to check out at 11:00ish to move on to the next school. Not enough time for all the class and not enough time for the Liberian to be fully committed to becoming familiar with our children's needs.
The combination of having a full time librarian and a quality Accelerated Reading progam have resulted in the high achieving outcomes associated with our California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). To remove anyone of these resources willl become the demise of the great strides Golden Oak Community School has achieved for its students, community and the Districct. Therefore, reinstating our former school librarian needs to happen immediately.
My kids love her and need her there very day to get new books when needed.
Bring her back.. my kids love her and need her..
We love Mrs Dempsey!! She's the best librarian! The kids need her!
There is a reason why our API has hit over 900, and that is solely due to a strong reading foundation. The top schools in the nation do not adjust their budgets with the library. Completely ridiculous. Put all of the librarians back!!!
Our children need this source to continue their education process.
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Final supporters
We, the parents of the students of the Golden Oak Community School, request that the position of the full time librarian is to be reinstated as soon as possible at the Golden Oak Community School.
We understand that the Sulphur Spring School District is attempting to minimize a budget deficit, but we strongly disagree that this should be accomplished through lowering the standard of pupil services.
The Golden Oak Community School library was established, upgraded, and maintained with a great amount of support from the Golden Oak PTA, which we support financially and otherwise. Therefore, we wish all that effort to not disappear. Servicing our library by an outside librarian only two and one half days a week will diminish every opportunity that our children had to access the wealth of accumulated books, computers, and other library services.
Research shows a strong link between the amount of time spend reading, level of reading, and mastery of progressively difficult reading with overall educational success, higher IQ, and future educational accomplishments. We do not wish our children to be the generation who were deprived of continuous accessibility of a school library as a haven for reading and personal growth.
Historically, the Golden Oak Community School’s Accelerated Reader program has been the most successful in the Sulphur Spring School District. We believe that one factor of this success was the accessibility of the library and the enthusiasm of our librarian, and this drove our children to their reading success.
We request that you reassess your decision to shut down our library two and one half days a week. This arrangement will barely allow our children to access the library once a week as a class. This arrangement will prohibit our children from spending recesses browsing books, taking AR test, or otherwise enjoying books. This arrangement also will make it difficult for our children to reach their reading goals, much less exceeding them. This arrangement will drive down the motivation of our children to read as it proves to them that the library, and consequently reading, is not important.
We demand that the Sulphur Spring School District Board reviews the decision to deny full time access to a library and allocates funds to provide full time librarian at the Golden Oak Community School.
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My daughter loves Mrs. Dempsey! The AR program has a great deal to do with all 3 of my children's love of reading & success in school! In order to continue Golden Oak's high achievement, a full time librarian is essential!
The Golden Oak children need the library open 5days a week! Many kids are stuck waiting till the following week to get more books and or ask questions. The part time schedule is not enough Quality time in the library to make the right choices on the selections of books. Plus the schedule is NOT a good fit for our school. Our current schedule is Monday, Tuesday and 1/2 of Wednesday. Well we lose some Monday's because of holidays and Tuesday is a half day for our students and Wednesday the librarian has to check out at 11:00ish to move on to the next school. Not enough time for all the class and not enough time for the Liberian to be fully committed to becoming familiar with our children's needs.
The combination of having a full time librarian and a quality Accelerated Reading progam have resulted in the high achieving outcomes associated with our California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). To remove anyone of these resources willl become the demise of the great strides Golden Oak Community School has achieved for its students, community and the Districct. Therefore, reinstating our former school librarian needs to happen immediately.
My kids love her and need her there very day to get new books when needed.
Bring her back.. my kids love her and need her..
We love Mrs Dempsey!! She's the best librarian! The kids need her!
There is a reason why our API has hit over 900, and that is solely due to a strong reading foundation. The top schools in the nation do not adjust their budgets with the library. Completely ridiculous. Put all of the librarians back!!!
Our children need this source to continue their education process.
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My daughter loves Mrs. Dempsey! The AR program has a great deal to do with all 3 of my children's love of reading & success in school! In order to continue Golden Oak's high achievement, a full time librarian is essential!