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charisstoma ([personal profile] charisstoma) wrote2013-12-19 12:43 pm

Beware of What you Ask for ...

At the beginning of the year students are asked to bring certain supplies to school. Things like paper towels, facial tissue, notebook paper, pencils. It’s voluntary, the district doesn’t provide these things.

This is what I sent out to teachers to tap this resource:

Please send facial tissues to the Library. We are about 1 student short of an empty box.

What resulted was very similar to the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. 3 separate teachers sent me massive quantities all pretty much at the same time as I was juggling with other projects. To prevent further facial tissue influx I quick fired off a thank you and enough message. My Librarian pointed out the error of my ways.

We have facial tissues that will keep us in blowing service for a very long time.
THANK YOU!


*head desk*
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[identity profile] miri-thompson.livejournal.com 2013-12-19 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL!

(Better too many than too few?)

Definitely too many is better than too few! *cringes* Rant occurred here

[identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com 2013-12-20 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhere near 12 boxes showed up in about 15 minutes and I was checking in and out books, and having to pull printed out individual students' science test results from the printer behind the desk. *pant pant pant*

One of the science teachers likes to come to use the library for the tables that allow students to take tests 2 to a table and then she has them plot graphs and print out the results from our Library computer stations.

Since she also moved previous years' table sized past examples of Future City mockups onto the top of two of our bookshelf units *growls* where there were books for the other school's needed reading curriculum .... I thought she was going to use them as examples for this year's Future City competition, which is a temporary thing of that day. Turns out she just wanted them down so that 2 days later the students would cannibalize them for parts.

She like many of the students has entitlement issues.
Edited 2013-12-20 01:03 (UTC)