Jun 02 2006
Wrapping it up for the year
We have only four student days of school left and one of those is a half-day. I’m still trying to gather up those last books that are out and about among the students. I refuse to deny the kids the ability to continue reading the good books in the order that arrived last Monday, so even though everything was due last Thursday before the Memorial Day holiday weekend, I’ve been checking things out overnight since then.
In a last ditch cleaning frenzy while I’ve got my school to work student here still, we went through bookshelves full of un-processed materials and still sealed boxes. I found probably $1500 worth of unprocessed reference and award-winning books (from the late 80s and early 90s). I don’t even know what to do about them! Some look valuable. There are the multicultural reference books Reference Library of Black America, Hispanic America, etc. with mid-90s copyrights.
I never cease to be amazed by what I find. I can’t even tell for sure that the items were ever paid for by the district. I guess since they’re not banging down the door I’ll assume that they were, but a few of the sets were in a box addressed to be returned to the publisher. What would you do?
