And all these
years later, I still don't understand why research and
schoolwork are not allowed in the library.
"No fighting in the war room!"
I would've approached it in a different way. I would have talked back.
I would have been sent to the principal. The principal *might* have
I used a rather more productive system. I had a word with one of the
teachers. I pointed out I';d jsut been thrown out of the library. Said
teacher knew I was not the sort of person to damage books or disrupt
other people working and investigated the matter for me. Apparently thate
was a reason for the rule : The library was not large enoguh for _all_
the students to be in it at the same time, so the only people who could
be there wwre those who needed to use the books for official school work.
Siad teacher agreeded that the rule was being misapplied and got it
changed (at least for me) that I could go in the library and read
whatever books I wanted to, provided I was not preventing somebody who
had official work to do from doing it. That seemed highly reasonable (and
during all my time at the schook, there were never enough people in the
library that they had to apply that rule).
given me detention, in which case my father would have
dropped our
lawyers on the school.
I have often thoguht my parents should ahve sued the school for not
providing an adequate education. As I said, I taught myself all the good
bits...
-tony