School librarians enter 'survival mode' as budgets slashed amid alarming drops in literacy rates

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Researchers are reporting an alarming loss in the number of qualified teacher librarians in schools, warning student literacy will continue to suffer if the trend is not reversed.

"We don't exist. Most schools don't even have us.""I think in many ways we're not perceived as teachers, and sometimes I suspect, particularly in the later years, we've been seen as more of a luxury. I have been told by a principal that because I'm not in front of a class, I'm vulnerable.""I can see they're extremely highly valued in private schools.

'Eddie' said his principal was reluctant to spend on the library, but millions had been spent elsewhere on non-essential building works: "When I started here, our budget was less than $40,000 … it's been reduced to just over $10,000 in the three years I've been here. Our principal says it's for budgetary, financial reasons. My heart sort of drops."Dr Merga said despite her best efforts, she had been unable to identify a single Government primary school in WA that employed a teacher librarian.

She said the positions should be mandatory, as was the case in the New South Wales public education system.

 

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This is what happens when you don't have libraries and value reading. This was a sticker book I bought for a friend 2 days ago.

No the government has to pay for these LGBTI members that have taken over and manipulating our children.

Thanks to Google; quick fix. If parents read then children will follow. Imitation begins in the home

Educated middle to lower class people won't vote LNP.

Coincidence that it's a valued service in private schools & expendable in public schools? Keep the poor poor & restrict their opportunities to learn, great leadership from a government that had all the benefits and now hate everyone that threatens their power base

It's all about Google, researching has changed, but nothing is better then reading a book.

Hell Goid iz Dat Skotee?

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