Many people must pay an annual fee to check out library books. The places where the $150-$200 fee per year is required, are just the places where the economy is poor and people are unable to afford the fee.
Don't you agree that all children,(at least) in America should have equal opportunity to read? Public service announcements serve no purpose if the families cannot afford books.
Celebrity figures telling us to read to children, need rather to be working to enable ALL communities whether large or small to have libraries and to make those libraries accessible to the surrounding area regardless of how political lines of demarcation are drawn.
Please educate yourselves, don't make me tell yet another generation that, "I'm sorry but Big Bird and Reading Rainbow are wrong, we cannot check out books from the library in town."
Yet large cities receive higher federal tax dollar return than rural communities. Now maybe you can begin to understand resentments. We all need.
2006-10-09
06:44:54
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