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The school librarian

January 16, 2008 - 7:08pm — nbruce

"I switched career tracks from high school English teacher to school librarian four years ago. It’s no secret that compared to managing classes of twenty-five or more students five times a day, a school library is softer on the sensibilities. Admittedly, after fifteen years in the English classroom, I’m not sure I have the nerve any longer to convince sixteen-year-olds that Thoreau is more relevant in the twenty-first century than he was in the nineteenth. After fifteen years of following the dictates of high school English programs, after just a few years of observing my appalling library circulation statistics for leisure reading and encountering many Chris Hamrins along the way, I’m left with one schooling leitmotif. It’s a POW tunneling out fifty yards beyond the barb-wired fencing." Story http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/13773/sec_id/13773.

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