{"id":176,"date":"2011-05-17T17:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-05-17T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:41:56","slug":"school-librarians-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/school-librarians-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"School Librarians On Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like a horror novel, except it&#8217;s really happening. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0513-tobar-20110513,0,3002882.column?page=1\">The Los Angeles Times <\/a>reports that teacher-librarians are being interrogated in court to prove that they use their teaching credential. If they can&#8217;t, the district will cut their positions. Apparently, showing up with lesson plans is not enough. <\/p>\n<p>I returned to school for a SECOND GRADUATE DEGREE and teacher certification, to the tune of thousands of dollars, so I could be a school library media specialist. This makes me want to cry. <\/p>\n<p>With the school librarians on trial and school libraries on the verge of closure, is it any wonder that children don&#8217;t read? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like a horror novel, except it&#8217;s really happening. The Los Angeles Times reports that teacher-librarians are being interrogated in court to prove that they use their teaching credential. If they can&#8217;t, the district will cut their positions. Apparently, showing up with lesson plans is not enough. I returned to school for a SECOND GRADUATE<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/school-librarians-on-trial\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,148,151,150,149],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-los-angeles-unified-school-district","tag-school-librarians","tag-school-libraries","tag-school-library-media-specialists","tag-teacher-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}