In defense of free-range reading: the demands of a "cushy job".

[full_metal_ox]

hazelnut96's credentials as a school librarian:

I am a professionally certified teacher. I passed all required tests

Comments

[tabaqui]

Lovely! Something that all librarians (and teacher) should aspire to.

And why they should get a lot *more* respect (and pay) than they do.

[featherfire]

Someone ate the baby! It's rather sad to say. Someone ate the baby, so... she won't be out to play.

I think that's Dreadful, anyway. I had to think for a bit.

I can appreciate this post because, while I did not have family who were librarians or anything... I do have a grandmother who was a teacher (retired now), and I come from a family of avid, rabid readers, and grew up in a house in which there were books in every single room (even rooms that were not, strictly speaking, rooms... like hallways) and a mother and a grandmother who always encouraged me to read, read, read, read.

[full_metal_ox]

I had that sort of upbringing, too--to the point that I literally do not remember a time when I was unable to read; one of my earliest dim infantile memories is of having flash cards shoved in my face.

Being grand-niece (on at least two counts), daughter, niece, aunt, and aunt-in-law to teachers, and sister-in-law to a librarian...yeah. I'd say there's a family tradition. (I was an adult by the time I ever heard the tired old crack about how [U.S.] teachers get to have three-month vacations.)

[kickthehobbit]

Oh wow, this is absolutely fantastic. :D Hooray for all school media specialists!

[live_momma]

Beautiful!