School libraries
Nancy is totally right here. 15 years ago there were so many more schools with functioning libraries that offered solace, respite and so much more. One student back then was what I'd call a 'frequent flyer'. Running into his mother recently, she told me that the MS library and then the HS library was the factor that let her son be successful. Over the years, the library has offered sanctuary to after school clubs, safe lunch spots, safe holding spaces ---calm, cool collected ones---while waiting for the guidance counselor, psychologist or administration. It used to be that it was a judgement-free zone, too. No one was there to say you owed them work (books, maybe, but not the same pressure). School committees and central administration are short-sighted when they look at a library and think it can be easily cut.
Pet peeve: For the love of the gods, please don't 'stage' meetings for the press or other groups in the library UNLESS YOU SUPPORT your library.
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