Appalling, astounding, atrocious. And those are just a few of the "A" words that children at some Baltimore City public schools will not be able to look up in a dictionary because their schools lack libraries. Today's Baltimore Sun article, "Keeping Up With Tomes," also describes barely more fortunate schools having libraries but no librarians and libraries with few and/or outdated books, such as Thomas Johnson Elementary School, where the dictionary is from 1956. Repeated calls to various departments of the Baltimore City Public School System yielded no one who cared to supply statistics on how many schools lack libraries, librarians, and up-to-date books.
Thank goodness for the Trudy and Joe Kaufman School Library Swap Foundation and Girl Scouts Troop 714 from Ellicott City for donating 1500 books and 50 pounds of art supplies to Thomas Johnson Elementary School, but the need for charity to make up for what should be fundamental is shameful, shocking, and sickening.
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