This is not a joke. At all. There are a LOT of high schools that actively prioritize football facilities over education. I grew up in one. It's very frustrating, and that's coming from someone who DID play football.
But once again… students and community use football. They do not use high school libraries.
That's literally the problem being presented, the "joke" as you called it. This isn't something to be weirdly proud about. This is something to be extremely concerned about. Prioritizing football over education in a place dedicated to the latter is absurd. Like, Idiocracy-levels absurd.
How has it gone so far over your head?
The former is questionable. The latter is a just a waste.
Do you care about education outcomes? Or do you care about 90s symbols of education, like libraries.
That is worse. It's education, not a startup in need of a pivot.
You characterized it as outside the mission and now you're trying to say it's part of the mission. Come on.
I agree - having an after school video game time would be a better use of resources than an unused library.
It’s not even just a summer thing — a lot of districts have blanket “no public use” policies year-round. They’ll cite liability, vandalism, or “preservation of facilities” as the reason, but the result is the same: empty fields, fenced-off courts, and taxpayers staring at what they bought but can’t touch.
Sure it is, it's free wood for the woodshop. Unless the library is very new, those are probably solid planks. No shop teacher is going to say no to free wood.
The real mystery is how the woodshop survived longer than the library did. Usually woodshops are the first thing to go.
Perhaps your experience is with states whose legislatures are dominated by trial lawyers, who can hope to retire on one really good, fat personal injury judgment?
Mine is, but I hope that's not the case everywhere.
I doubt there’s a true budget crisis. It was manufactured to justify getting rid of the books for political reasons.
Why pay a vendor to do it when you can get the students to do it for free?
Also once again, this sounds like what someone would imagine they did in wood shop if they never took wood shop.
You do know what goes on in wood shop class right? Some light demolition is nothing compared to the power tools they'll be using soon.
Similar in woodshop and metal working - doing stuff to fix the schools infra/bldg.
Wonderful idea.
Their interests were specialized and they got their books online or from larger collections not offered at a school.
It’s fine - libraries aren’t sacred. If nobody uses them we don’t need them.
The joke about football is often made but they pay for it, because people use it.
> “Disassembling the library bookcases”
I am skeptical. This is not the subject of wood working. And why would the school entangle students with a task to be performed by professional vendors.