You too did not see my email so I don’t understand how you can be critical of it.

I don’t place blame on Ms. Jacobs for anything. She’s a true hero of mine.

Your disappointment that it wasn’t a case of PC run amuck is misdirected. Blame the district, not the messenger.

And Mrs. Davis, how can you say my email was misleading when you’ve never read it?

So now you are trying to place the blame on Joanne for misinterpreting your email?

This incident is not a big deal. However it doesn’t say much for you for refusing to own up to the fact that your report was misleading and that you did not immediately correct that impression when people assumed that the books were discarded for reasons of political correctness.

Amritas, thank you for giving me stuff to think about–once again.

And Mrs. Davis, how can you say my email was misleading when you’ve never read it?

In other words, I couldn’t think out of the box and consider the possibility of some other reason for the dumping.

“Material is inaccurate”: Most of the books are fiction, so this doesn’t apply to them. And I couldn’t imagine a fact-checking patrol going through the non-fiction books.

“Does not meet district standards”: Surely this couldn’t mean the books were too easy – I’ve never heard of school libraries underestimating their students – and the thought that the books could be too *hard* didn’t occur to me. So I thought that “standards” referred to a PC code.

“Stereotypes gender or culture”: All it takes is a glance to find something objectionable in a book. Easier to do with 686 books than determining whether the nonfiction books were “inaccurate.”

My error was in assuming the stamps were meaningful.

I assume (dangerous word, I know!) there are no plans to reorganize the library to make more space for computers or other cooler-than-book devices. Or plans to acquire a huge number of new books.

At the moment I’m guessing that a bureaucracy unfamiliar with this particular library requested to remove all books that haven’t been borrowed in years from all area libraries, regardless of whether any of those libraries needed space for new acquisitions or not. A one-size-fits-all policy gone awry. Or not, depending on what new facts surface.

As Brian Rude pointed out, “every story has incomplete information.” Ideally, we shouldn’t judge until we know all the facts, but that’s impossible. When do we have enough to justify reactions and judgments?

I still would like to know why some perfectly good books were removed from a library that has plenty of room for these books and thousands more.

But we can be sure that those champing at the bit as a result of Wright’s misleading e-mail jumped to the wrong conclusion. That’s clear.

I go with lack of circulation due to teachers failing to assign challenging (to their leftist beliefs) texts.