Houston school district announces plan to eliminate 28 libraries
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The Houston Independent School District announced a plan to eliminate more than 28 libraries and replace them with centers for work and discipline after allegations of poor academic performance. NBC News’ Antonia Hylton spoke to the school district superintendent and a parent about the closures.
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Replacing the whole library with In School Suspension, this is some alternate dimension crap. My heart broke when that child openly admitted, "I can barely read"
I know. I don't have kids but it's still disheartening knowing the subpar level of education future generations are receiving.
That is heartbreaking, that school is letting their kids down. My kids were reading in 1st grade. This whole thing is insane. I really think the "no child left behind" rule is damaging a lot of kids. Kids are being moved up when they are not ready, then they fall further behind.
That’s mom’s fault her kids can’t read!
She was their first teacher.
As a former school librarian and current reading teacher, this makes me incredibly mad. “A bold model that works.” Um…please show me the research that it works, because I can show you research on the benefits of libraries.
"data," "evidence," and "facts," are just evil liberal agendas to Republicans.
Greetings. How are the librarians' associations answering to this?
Haven't they considered creating community libraries?
Ebooks are more important
@@sharinaross1865 I guess you don’t realize that many children in under-performing schools don’t have regular access to the internet or electronic devices like tablets. So e-books wouldn’t really be that useful for those students, would they?
@@nailartguy3363 so your saying those underperforming schools do not have access to electronic devices (tablets and laptops) while on school grounds?
28 libraries, no way. Libraries are essential to learning, help create young readers, and they promote studying. For many who don’t have access to books and computers at home, they’re so important. If the kids are struggling, closing libraries won’t help. This is sad and alarming.
It may also be difficult for some of these kids to get to a branch of their public library, so having the school library available to them is crucial. BTW, the idiocy of that guy saying, "See? We still have books on the walls"---yeah, but I would hope not all the kids in the school are either struggling academically or requiring discipline for their behavior, so how do kids who don't fall into either category get into what was formerly the library and get to browse for books without dealing with everything else that might be going on in that room?
Companies want children that come from poor families not able to read it keeps them from knowing what’s going on and have cheap workers for their companies. Money and their greed is what matters to the CEO’s etc.
So the kids struggling to learn are going to be stuck in a room with the disruptive kids?! How is that fair?! And books on the shelves don’t equate to books being read….my lord
What you don't realize is they're being prepared for prison
@@san67882 REPLIES
@san6788 😱😢 but yeah can see this being true
They want the kids smart enough to work the machines and cash registers, but not smart enough to think and question.
@@gregscottjungthe school to prison pipeline is a good read
So they have money for stupid and useless giant sport stadiums but not for education
That's America
Libraries are meant to help ALL KIDS with their reading levels, sounds and speech, and grow their imagination! Taking away the one pastime I had in public school, get away from my problems, and be in my happy place! Forcing kids to read only when they have to in class, and not get to actually enjoy reading it on their own or get to pick out their own books! This hurts my inner child spirit. And I had learning disability! My teachers got me into reading not only because it helped me immensely and I love reading, but also because I now do really well in English💔
This is monstrous. Protect libraries and librarians at all costs!!!
😇Texans, i wonder how ever you vote for people who do these things. you will have to take responsibility for your vote. this is difficult but i can't see how you can continue to vote this way...blessings to all
Well to be fair. This is a blue district being overtaken by republikkkans
Shame on all of you who vote for these disgusting Republicans, pathetic!
Gerrymandering.
@@JoannaRives i get gerrymandering. still...blessings
Houston ISD is a failing school district. The state is required by law to take it over if they continue to fail.
This sounds like "Make the kids illiterate so they believe everything the government tells them," to me. Reminds me of the world pre-printing press as well as 1940s Germany. 🤷♀🤦♀
Preparing children for our for profit jails.
Terrible idea
Keep kids smart by getting rid of books. Yeah there's logic for you. But it fits in with this country as they don't want smart educated people.
Bingo
This is what it looks like when people don't back up what they CLAIM to be a priority with the resources to actually make it a priority....our future generations only get the education that we're willing to pay for.
Talking about mental health affecting the society. This is large scale mental health.
The "discipline center" is at home, not at school.
If it truly were at home, there would be no need for it in the school.
If she can bus her daughters to a school with better resources, she should do that.
The library??? No! Growing up the library was a safe haven to explore, to read and read books I loved! It's an important part of the learning process, it's part of life, it's what makes the brain develop
how is she in 5th grade and cant read?
Special Education. Never head of it? Maybe you forgot people have disabilities?
I was kind of wondering that myself
She goes to school in Texas, and Texas is trying to raise a generation of uneducated people (e.g. Republicans).
She suffers from dyslexia.
Because US education does not pass students based on mastery but politics. No Child Left Behind has crippled education by moving students onward without proof of their mastery and thus depreciating the diploma at "graduation." Texas is notoriously bad at education.
Blue city in a red state says it all... this is POLITICAL.
Not at all. This isn't happening to no other city but Houston. Their school district sucks.
Good luck with that Houston, afterall who needs literacy?
"I won bigly with the poor and uneducated. I love the poor and uneducated! They are my biggest supporters and I wish we had more of them!"
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Wait - the mom interviewed in the story "can't afford a laptop for her kids" - but they have a video game system to play with?
Wow. Fascism is so sad. Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.
This is so sad. I use to be a Texas native and left to be with my husband. It's so so sad to see what's happening to my old home. I thought Texans were smarter then this. Before I left I already heard stories from friends about how the schools were already hurting. Low test scores, more gang activity, and some of their kids feeling left behind. It's going to get worse.
So many kids already lack critical thinking skills due to things like tiktok, RUclips-shorts and not reading. It's gonna get worse and they're setting these kids up to fail.
Technology isn’t to blame,it’s USA education system which clearly needs reform to improve it at a national level so every single state leans same thing, wether it’s Alaska,Texas, Tennessee or NYC. I don’t care what political party you support or what religion you follow or don’t follow, they need to learn about all religions at age appropriate level. It goes beyond libraries, schools need to improve but they not improving it. You don’t even need to go to Texas to see the issues. Southern states are in a worst shape but that doesn’t mean others are good either. compared to other western countries it’s abysmal weather you think so or not. Nordic countries have best western countries education system. Country I’m from had a decent one when I was in school but definitely needed improvement which has happened but could still be better. So i would give Nordic countries A*/A+, Wales where I’m from would get a D with old one a C with new curriculum but USA would get a G grade which used be a fail, when I was in school but it’s now good enough for level 1 course in a college not a university. Only a U is a fail now.
Texas Government is making it worst.
Because no one can or will read anyway. Also makes it easier to dumb them down and fill their heads with lies.
I hope they don't burn the books 😮
They don't need to. Just remove librarians, then books. Same affect. 😔
That will be next
So they’re going to lump the slow learners with the delinquents? The slow children don’t even have a chance…
Is this a Simpsons bit?
As a human being, I can assure you this is a parent problem first.
What parent would send their children to schools that closes its libraries?
HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' tenure here in Dallas was a scandal-ridden disaster, and I expect that his stay in Houston will be very much the same. Time will confirm that this hostile take-over of HISD is a very bad idea. This is nuts!
Eliminate Libraries?! HOGWASH. Keep the libraries but use parent volunteers to work the library. It’s done all over other states.
Respectfully, librarians are more than decorative figures. Putting parents in charge is an emergency measure at best, like putting untrained parents in charge of the infirmary.
So, how can we get Sophie and her friends some books?
This is absurd
Feel like this is a nightmare
We are definately living in one.
This news report made no sense. It is just tooo vague. I still don't know why they got rid of the librarians? To make more learning centers out of libraries? This makes no sense.
To fluff other teacher salaries. You missed that part.
@@bakarangerpinku No, I actually heard it, but I still thought there has to be more. And for me, that is not a good enough reason to fire librarians and change the dynamic of the library.
Vote them OUT ! Vote blue
Ridiculous. The library is a place to learn, dream and expand their mind. I see it as another way to control the future
5th grader unable to read? My parents came here from Mexico and they did not know English . I learned to read at 6 years
Shameful
Jesus, we already have a lack of libraries in our state and now this..
Time to make home libraries
If prisons have libraries, then why don’t the funking schools..? Parents pay their school fees for those libraries.
Seems like you’ll get a better education in prison where all the books are….😂
Teach your kids at home.
@WinterCicadas most people have smart phones with access to nearly all knowledge available to the world. Ignorance is inexcusable in the age of information. End of the day there's a teacher shortage because of the moral and appreciation shortage in society. Your kids are Your responsibility. It sounds harsh but it's true.
@WinterCicadas instill a desire for knowledge and love of learning in your children.. and yes, if you can't afford paperback books, digital books will have to do. Some make excuses others find solutions. They have the phone already. Make them learn with it or take it away. Give them assignments to complete while you are working. Check it when you get off. It's not as easy as it sounds, but it's necessary. If that's important to you. Sometimes we have no choice but to do more.
Next you'll be replacing teachers with robots I think this is a very scary thing to close libraries and no librarians
Why focus on needed "Policy", we have a Culture War to Win! (Sarcasm)
I bet if a billionaire like Bill Gates paid the librarian's salaries they still wouldn't keep the libraries. When one of my daughters didn't want to read I had her bring home for me to read & I read 50 Nancy Drew books & i'd tell her she couldn't read as many as I did. She started reading Nancy Drew Books & passed me & I never read another one. lol She is an avid reader & she said she's read 30 books this year & started a new book. My other daughter gets New York City library books online & is an avid reader, also. This is all because of our school library. Kids need libraries. I wonder if this is because of the immigration problem in Texas. Florida will be next‼️
All the funds are going to Mike Miles and his Colorado Third charter schools. We need more property taxes decreased!!!
If it happens here it can happen in your state we have to stand our ground somewhere
In Houston much like Baltimore most children can't read at the age of 17.If the school didn't feed them they'd starve.
This is not fair at all.
Tell me again that Texan politicians are not American Taliban.
And who's brilliant idea was that?? I always thought that as Americans educating our kids was a way to fund the future of our country. So many are going to be left behind. Unfortunately, all professional careers will be outsourced in the future.
The discipline centre used to be the principles office. Why doesn't he do his job?
I'm curious as to what will happen to kids that go into those discipline rooms, in a State where mostly everyone has access to a firearm?
Don't they need library to study? Sometimes it's too noisy at home to study so go library.
Competing with Florida for stoopidest state in the union! Wow!
Def know not to live in Houston
Good work! these kids need jail not books these days.
I am a graduate of HISD and a retired teacher and what I see is a good idea done the wrong way. Kids have become feral to the point that the other kids can not learn. So they do need an instant ISS room and staff to remove the problem kids from the classroom. How ever that should not be at the expense of a library. How about the cafeteria instead and let students take lunch trays back to classroom? Better yet, expand alternative school and make the parents attend some parenting classes if their kids are sent to alternative school.
Just another day in Houston…
Kids are underperforming in reading so they close the library. That is so back asswards.
Abbot hand picked the clown trying to make this the new Florida ….🙄🙄🙄
If Jessica is "reading for imaginary travel" with her daughter then how is it her daughter just stated she just barely started reading this year and that she cant read?....seems like that phone and the video game controller have been the" book" so far
What about the kids parents? Are they not part of these kids lives these parents need to educate their kids. They can’t have teachers do the job that parents have to do.
Always proud to be an Amurican.
Step up the parenting and nurturing.
Community libraries time?
There's 297 schools in HISD and they're partially repurposing twenty-eight. Just chill people!!! Your fear mongering doesn't serve anyone except yourselves. HISD (or a lot of it) had been bloated and failing for years! Put your politics (or nepotism) aside long enough to see if these changes can help at least SOME of the kids.
Good destroy the apple of knowledge, an educated population is one that can think for themselves and doesn't need to be told what to do. We can't allow that...
Go to the pubilic Library,its better.
Why is a child that old just learning how to read. We started my niece on a chalkboard in the house when she was 5 years old or something like that. Her grandfather made sure she practiced. I wish these kids luck they're going to need it.
Probably her first language is Spanish. I started reading 📚 Spanish when I was high school senior.
The schools didn't fail the children the parents failed the children. I think schools are supplemental learning resources to learn that are mainly a social experience and a guide to learning. Why is a child learning to read in school? I think you should be reading before you even start school and school is a place to practice and have extra time. I believe parents are completely responsible for a child's education. I don't understand why these parents aren't sitting with their children daily working on reading and math. This is sad that girl being that old and her parents didn't teach her it sounds to me more like they failed their child. I think if they can use the library for something the benefits the children great. I don't think schools should have libraries anymore. There are public libraries and children should go with parents so they can monitor what their children are reading.
we lived the the 21st century and people still wanted to become a librarian?Every college classes required you to do research online but they also have library as well but physical bookbs are generally more expensive but some they is easer to read and since you wont be distracted as much when reading online
A B rating and hostile takeover. Could it be politics.
Gotta up those prison numbers because our private prisons are hurting when these are given opportunities too good for them.
Can't afford a laptop... then shows her kid with iPhone and Xbox. Seems like someone needs to update their priorities vs. their needs.
why are you even here? What do you contribute to society no face no name also on an Xbox an iPhone with no education?
texas is out of control!
Agenda 30
Desantis needs to leave . My children will be taught everything, not just the wants of Idiocracy
Fahrenheit 451
This is fascism.
@@haylee.noelle Cry harder, femiwaffen lol
Farrenhiet 451
Wrong you r just trying to take away someones birthright
💔💔💔
How many shut In religious schools?
. &&& This is so sad. . 📚💔💯
So the title doesn’t match reality. Makes sense why when someone was trying to tell me about this story I knew they had been fed lies. Not a 30 second blurb about how hisd got to this place? Joke reporting. If your kid is in fifth grade and can’t read and that’s not the teachers fault that’s the parents fault.
The dumbing-down of America continues.
Time to bring in your own books for the students to read so they can learn
1984, Brave New World, 7800 Fahrenheit future dystopian novels unfolding as reality...
Although I was an avid reader as a student, the school libraries (in more than one school) were useless as a source for good reading materials. Public libraries, yes. Books in the classrooms - yes. Books from garage sales and thrift stores - yes. But the school libraries were useless. OTOH - a lot of kids can benefit from tutoring. Maybe this move has some positive goals.
Keep voting republican
Libraries are obsolete
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You can hardly read, why is it up to the teachers to teach our children? Parents should be teaching their children and teachers help us parents!!!!! Wow. Let’s blame the teachers because our children in 5th grade can hardly read, parents you had these children. My word.
Libraries are going the way of the Dodo because of a thing called the Internet. So getting rid of Librarians is a logical step. I've been teaching for over a decade, and I haven't required students to go to the library in a very long time because everything can be found online. There's no good reason for keeping them. And the money you save from their salaries can be used to purchase laptops for student use. There's a shortage of teachers, so they can still find work. It also eliminates a very stupid debate about banning books. Librarians are routinely subject to threats and harassment by idiots who don't understand that everything can be found online, and that banning books is pointless. So this saves Librarians from that as well.
Well, you can actually research a lot of things in a library and you won’t really be tracked for it. You have such a tiny mind you couldn’t think of that? Took me 2 seconds to find a reasonable reason.
Yes. Limit information. Make it so that all the information that you do get is traceable. What Chinese province do you live in? Just curious. It’s not like I know where any of that is.
there are still “public libraries “ in Houston. It was kind of redundant for the school to have one too. public libraries visit schools more than once a week to loan kids books. its not “taking away the books”. also it will probably cut down on groomer story hour 😂
Think new plan should be model for all schools in the US. Imagine you being able to pick and choose..
Yes. Like being able to have the state remove the school board your community elected by force and take away all the books your kid can read. That way they only read tweets and Reddit posts and moronic RUclips comments written by "Letnothinggotowasteineverheardofnospacebardammit!"
So these kids cant even read anyways lol so why does it matter ?
They still need to learn, ya dip!
It matters because they deserve every chance possible to learn, or at least have a place to go that shields them from uncaring people (look in the mirror).
@@johnnykruton1221 yeah thats not how that works lol. You have a classroom for that.
@@kevinbernatek7875, since when? And doesnt a significant city like Houston have idk public libraries?
@@27Killermikenot everyone have access to other libraries
Especially those of low income