WE WON!! THE BOARD OF EDUCATION REVERSED THEIR DECISION AND OUR LIBRARIANS ARE STAYING!! THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FOR OUR STUDENTS BECAUSE WE REFUSED TO LET THEM TAKE OUR EXPERTS AWAY!! STAY VIGILANT BECAUSE WE MUST ENSURE THIS PROMISE IS KEPT FOREVER!!
March 28, 2014
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Unfortunately, our Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 Board of Education members are considering a technology plan that will eliminate every elementary school library media specialist in our entire district! As an example, the media specialist at Skyway Elementary, Pam Herr, is a certified teacher with Masters Degrees in both Technology and Library Science with almost 25 years' experience helping countless children. She is slated to lose her position. In exchange for a licensed and certified full-time media specialist, each school would have to share a half-time technology resource person with another elementary school and would staff the school library with a non-certified half-time library clerk. Neither of these new positions requires a teaching certificate. You can read about the technology plan here: http://www.cmsd12.org/. Technology and librarians need not be mutually exclusive.
In addition to signing this petition opposing the part of the technology plan that will eliminate our elementary school librarians, I urge you to contact the D12 Board members via email or letter to protest this plan (http://www.cmsd12.org/boe). You may also want to attend the school board meeting on Monday, March 17th at 6:30pm in the Community Room of the administration building at 1775 La Clede Street. Thank you for signing and please spread the word to every taxpayer you know within School District 12.
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Reached 100 supporters
March 14, 2014
45 Comments
Why would we would give up a fully qualified, experienced, and proven professional for two part-time clerks?! How can this proposal possibly benefit the students? Two part-time positions may cost the district less, but that's because they are worth less. You get what you pay for.
Please consider that the librarian often reaches children who are quiet and less social than the majority. I know that my daughter in particular had a teriffic relationship with the (absolutely super) librarian at Skyway which promoted her attachment to her school and improved her overall educational experience in so many ways.
My kids love their librarian at Skyway Elementary. They often talk about going to the library, the stories Mrs. Her (spelling?) tells, the information she passes on and the books she reads to them. I feel like replacing a valuable educator and mentor is a mistake.
As a District 12 alumni and now district parent to two young children, I believe the presence of a full time librarian like Mrs. Herr is incredibly important to their school career and learning success. My daughter already speaks highly of the time she spends with the Mrs. Herr. The cost of the loss of this valuable professional and resource would be too great.
This is crazy! Mrs. Herr has been essenitial to the progress my dyslexic child has improved! She provides encouragement and assistance technology could never replace!
man, FUCK librarians. Also, get a tablet you pricks
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WE WON!! THE BOARD OF EDUCATION REVERSED THEIR DECISION AND OUR LIBRARIANS ARE STAYING!! THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FOR OUR STUDENTS BECAUSE WE REFUSED TO LET THEM TAKE OUR EXPERTS AWAY!! STAY VIGILANT BECAUSE WE MUST ENSURE THIS PROMISE IS KEPT FOREVER!!
March 28, 2014
Final supporters
Unfortunately, our Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 Board of Education members are considering a technology plan that will eliminate every elementary school library media specialist in our entire district! As an example, the media specialist at Skyway Elementary, Pam Herr, is a certified teacher with Masters Degrees in both Technology and Library Science with almost 25 years' experience helping countless children. She is slated to lose her position. In exchange for a licensed and certified full-time media specialist, each school would have to share a half-time technology resource person with another elementary school and would staff the school library with a non-certified half-time library clerk. Neither of these new positions requires a teaching certificate. You can read about the technology plan here: http://www.cmsd12.org/. Technology and librarians need not be mutually exclusive.
In addition to signing this petition opposing the part of the technology plan that will eliminate our elementary school librarians, I urge you to contact the D12 Board members via email or letter to protest this plan (http://www.cmsd12.org/boe). You may also want to attend the school board meeting on Monday, March 17th at 6:30pm in the Community Room of the administration building at 1775 La Clede Street. Thank you for signing and please spread the word to every taxpayer you know within School District 12.
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Reached 100 supporters
March 14, 2014
45 Comments
Yes, we need more technological literacy, but shouldn't basic literacy come first? Librarians helped me to pick out books which would excite me to read & I don't think a clerk can do that...
Why would we would give up a fully qualified, experienced, and proven professional for two part-time clerks?! How can this proposal possibly benefit the students? Two part-time positions may cost the district less, but that's because they are worth less. You get what you pay for.
Please consider that the librarian often reaches children who are quiet and less social than the majority. I know that my daughter in particular had a teriffic relationship with the (absolutely super) librarian at Skyway which promoted her attachment to her school and improved her overall educational experience in so many ways.
My kids love their librarian at Skyway Elementary. They often talk about going to the library, the stories Mrs. Her (spelling?) tells, the information she passes on and the books she reads to them. I feel like replacing a valuable educator and mentor is a mistake.
As a District 12 alumni and now district parent to two young children, I believe the presence of a full time librarian like Mrs. Herr is incredibly important to their school career and learning success. My daughter already speaks highly of the time she spends with the Mrs. Herr. The cost of the loss of this valuable professional and resource would be too great.
This is crazy! Mrs. Herr has been essenitial to the progress my dyslexic child has improved! She provides encouragement and assistance technology could never replace!
man, FUCK librarians. Also, get a tablet you pricks
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Yes, we need more technological literacy, but shouldn't basic literacy come first? Librarians helped me to pick out books which would excite me to read & I don't think a clerk can do that...