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Originally Posted by SamIam
I doubt if that news story is actually what happened. I don't know how big that school is, but I bet more than 10 kids had library fines of one sort or an another. Why send home only 10 of them? They would ALL have had to go home or call Mom and Dad for the money.
At my high school if you had fines or you lost a book, your library privileges would be taken away until you cleared the matter up.
As a matter of fact, in grade school, if we turned out text books in at the end of the year with too much damage, we had to pay for them. So everybody made these funky covers for their books out of brown paper bags.
I agree the kids should be taught responsibility. Let 'em do some work around the school to make up the fine if they can't pay it.
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I think they are not library books but loaned books from the depository. there aren't fines here for school library books, as long as you return them eventually I think the school is in the region of 2,000. The books Hebe got from her school were in a disgusting state. They'd better not charge for that damage.
it's interesting to note that not one parent is featured in the article. It's a social worker/whatever making all the noise.
Either they really really don't care, or they know they had plenty of time to deal with it and should've done something/helped their child do something about it.