A post by Lizzie
This article was on the Yahoo newsfeed. It features a woman who was fired from her library position following her defense of a young boy who has won the library's summer reading contest for five years in a row. This summer he read over sixty books. The head librarian decided that this kid intimidated all of the other kids, and in order to make it more fair, wanted to change it from a "You read the most and you win" system to a lottery system. If a child read a certain amount of books, they would be entered into a lottery and then prizes would be given to the kids' whose names were drawn out of a hat. The librarian in question defended the boy's win and was fired shortly after.
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/closing-a-chapter--beloved-librarian-fired-following-reading-contest-controversy--185514741.html
What do you think about this idea? The idea that one kid's success intimidates others, so therefore the system is reworked? Is competition between students a good or bad thing? Do you think that the librarian should have been let go?
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