Inevitable-Place9950 t1_je33xfb wrote
Reply to comment by OccasionallyImmortal in Mad about book bans in school libraries? Philadelphia has a solution - no libraries at all! Only 7/217 schools have libraries for their kids. by youngbuck215
Access to the variety of stories in libraries are part of how kids get motivated to read. Kind of like how the number of books in the kid’s home correlate to academic achievement.
OccasionallyImmortal t1_je3gae7 wrote
At no point in my life did the contents of a school library contribute to my ability to read because my school also did not have one. The public library contributed to my continued interest in reading which the school library could also facilitate.
The critical ingredient are parents and/or teachers who value reading as important. Half of Philadelphia's children appear to have neither.
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