For years, poor school districts closed school libraries & fired librarians. How can teachers emphasize the importance of learning to read without giving students reading material they like & school librarians to help? Librarians are critical to learning. https://nancyebailey.com/2018/04/21/poverty-reading-the-sad-and-troubling-loss-of-school-libraries-and-real-librarians/
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Inner city, low socio-econ school catchment; families within 2-10 blocks of public library, but often couldn’t make it there.
Late fees issues too.