It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => The "Educators" => Topic started by: Glock32 on August 20, 2013, 04:25:00 PM
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More liberalism on display. A public library in New York has a contest to encourage reading among kids, but one young man with a voracious appetite for books has been accused by the library's moonbat director of "hogging" the contest. She contends that the boy should "step aside" because it's not fair that other kids can't (more like won't) keep up. So she has decided that henceforth, the best way to determine the winner of a contest allegedly created to encourage reading will be to draw names from a hat at random. All hail fairness.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=35144 (http://moonbattery.com/?p=35144)
After liberals have deleted every word that could conceivably be construed as racist from our vocabulary, they will go after other words they don’t like — such as “merit”:
Tyler Weaver calls himself “the king of the reading club” at Hudson Falls Public Library. But now it seems Hudson Falls Public Library Director Marie Gandron wants to end his reign and have him dethroned.
The 9-year-old boy, who will be starting fifth grade next month, won the six-week-long “Dig into Reading” event by completing 63 books from June 24 to Aug. 3, averaging more than 10 a week.
He has consistently been the top reader since kindergarten, devouring a total of 373 books over the five contests, according to his mother, Katie. …
Katie said she is “extremely proud” of her sons’ accomplishments, especially Tyler for having held his title for this long.
“I’ve told them God makes all of us different. There are some things that are hard and some that are easy, but they should excel at what they enjoy doing and Tyler just loves to read,” she said. “Everybody he tells, he gets high-fives. Everybody’s so proud of him.”
Everybody, it seems, but Gandron, who was surprised to learn Katie notified a Post-Star reporter about her son being a longtime winner. During a phone call Tuesday to Gandron, the library director said Tyler “hogs” the contest every year and he should “step aside.”
“Other kids quit because they can’t keep up,” Gandron said.
Gandron further told the reporter she planned to change the rules of the contest so that instead of giving prizes to the children who read the most books, she would draw names out of a hat and declare winners that way.
Soon liberals will consolidate their totalitarian grip on sports, and we will no longer have to worry about excellent teams causing other teams to quit because they can’t keep up. Champions would be chosen at random, except that might allow lucky teams to have an advantage. More likely, the championship for all sports will rotate, so everyone is guaranteed a turn. That way no one will have their feelings hurt, and no one will have to exert any effort.
The lovely librarian, Madam Handicapper General:
(http://hudsonfalls.sals.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/librarian_hudsonfalls.jpg) (http://hudsonfalls.sals.edu/)
And do be sure to visit the library's website: http://hudsonfalls.sals.edu/ (http://hudsonfalls.sals.edu/)
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Bet she wouldn't be upset if it was a girl who kept winning instead of a boy.
Oh, and from other accounts, the witch declared that since the mother has gone to the media, now she can't change the contest rules. Boo-hoo.
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Oh, and from other accounts, the witch declared that since the mother has gone to the media, now she can't change the contest rules. Boo-hoo.
Running from the light like a cockroach.
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::bashing:: ::bashing:: ::bashing:: ::bashing:: ::bashing::
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and the worst library website!
BUT I found her email! haha
under hours and location
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Bet she wouldn't be upset if it was a girl who kept winning instead of a boy.
Oh, and from other accounts, the witch declared that since the mother has gone to the media, now she can't change the contest rules. Boo-hoo.
Yes. A girl or, well, you know....
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I emailed her.
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Bet she wouldn't be upset if it was a girl who kept winning instead of a boy.
Oh, and from other accounts, the witch declared that since the mother has gone to the media, now she can't change the contest rules. Boo-hoo.
Yes. A girl or, well, you know....
...a girlish boy? ::hysterical::
Ya just knew this was going on in a traditional libiot state too, didn't ya?
And hey, you think this librarian ever dated...a man?
Anyway...penalizing reading, now that is progressive, eh? Don't miss your ride, sweetie! ::bus::
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http://poststar.com/news/local/librarian-suggests-turning-the-page-on-longtime-reading-club-winner/article_bdbebbc6-0625-11e3-b6f4-0019bb2963f4.html (http://poststar.com/news/local/librarian-suggests-turning-the-page-on-longtime-reading-club-winner/article_bdbebbc6-0625-11e3-b6f4-0019bb2963f4.html)
The expanded article with this tidbit.
Lita Casey, an aide at the library for 28 years, said she is usually the person who asks the questions to determine whether the children have done the reading. She keeps track of the number of books for each student and submits it to Gandron.
Casey said she enjoys working with all the kids at the library and doesn’t want her job to be in jeopardy, but she feels Gandron’s plan to change the rules of the contest are “ridiculous.”
Casey established a special relationship with the Weaver boys, who call her “Gram,” because they are frequent visitors to the library.
My guess that "Gram" is just a normal grandma, with a passion for being the town's "gram." Anther guess is that Marie L. Gandron is a professional librarian, with all that baggage that comes with that title. Librarians being afflicted with the disease of leftism, if you've ever paid attention to the vile garbage that comes out of their professional organization.
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Why don't they just give EVERYBODY a prize. Isn't that they way they operate anyway?
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Good point, the everybody-wins-nobody-is-a-loser crowd is usually all over that. Must have slipped their minds... (and that ain't all that's slippin'!)
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Well, as I expected I didn't get a response to my email. But I'm sure she read it. She's a librarian she wouldn't be able to resist reading it. :D
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Just give it a few more days...if truly a typical thin-skinned libiot, even the most benign of criticisms will be internalized as a terrorist threat and a State Trooper will be calling on you. And I am serious, it's happened to me before.
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Just give it a few more days...if truly a typical thin-skinned libiot, even the most benign of criticisms will be internalized as a terrorist threat and a State Trooper will be calling on you. And I am serious, it's happened to me before.
Did you use your usual wit and charm? ::laughonfloor::
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That this young man is reading is great, bit I hope his parents are encouraging him to do team sports and other activities. Another curious thought. Is he reading books at his age level?
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As he reads a lot, I figure he's reading above his age level, and that's a good thing.
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It wouldn't be a problem if he was reading up on how to be a gender reassignment surgeon, or a world-class abortionist now would it?
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As he reads a lot, I figure he's reading above his age level, and that's a good thing.
Yes it is. Not everyone is an avid reader, and the librarian needs to understand that.
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Just give it a few more days...if truly a typical thin-skinned libiot, even the most benign of criticisms will be internalized as a terrorist threat and a State Trooper will be calling on you. And I am serious, it's happened to me before.
Did you use your usual wit and charm? ::laughonfloor::
Fortunately I didn't have to...the first words out of his mouth were "...I know this is ridiculous, but I'm just doing my job..." all I had to do was agree with him "yes, it is ridiculous", and it turns out he lived near my neck of the woods and had the same complaint as I.
IIRC I used words like "...heads should roll over this..." in my complaint to the thin-skinned faceless state bureaucrat I was peeved with.
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It wouldn't be a problem if he was reading up on how to be a gender reassignment surgeon, or a world-class abortionist now would it?
Is the Anarchist Cookbook in circulation still? Maybe they'd be OK with that too.