In a few months the school or library will send a note saying the book is overdue. Stiff-arm them for a couple months before mailing in a paper-check. Write if for a dollar less than the amount requested or transpose a couple of numbers; $41 can become $14.
Argue with whoever attempts to straighten out the matter.
Six months later, a new copy might be on the shelf. Repeat as needed.
Or, if you want to get fancy, propose to the school board that the library must solicit bids from three separate sources including one used-book source and they must choose the lowest cost supplier. Additional complexity makes the beast choke.
Master-level is to find out which used-book source the school district is using and to offer "the book" at what is clearly the lowest price in the time-frame when they make their buys. Recycle the cover from the one your kid checked out of the library and insert more age-appropriate material within that cover.
Books? How quaint. The web is loaded with 10x more of everything that is in books.
ReplyDeleteThere is still a significant number of parents who do not allow their sub-11 year-old children to have mobile devices and have "Parental controls" on devices connected to the internet in their homes.
DeleteOutside the home, parents who care about such things will not give rides to the homes of friends where the parents are raising feral kids.
Also outside the home, computers in public spaces like libraries and schools have the browsers set to "Safe" mode by the administrators.
If books are irrelevant, then we can totally defund libraries, and yet I don't hear very many people calling for that, especially progressives.
Instead of checking them out, could you just dump them in the library trash, preferably a can with lots of paper already in it?
ReplyDeleteThen it would show as available in their system but couldn't be found...
I like the idea of non compliance, being sand in the gears and all that.... but this fight, its not about the book (i.e. tangible object present in the library or not). I believe for most of us it is more the existential questions that cause us to revolt against tge changes being pushed in our society.
ReplyDeleteIf its not this book, its another. Not the book its a 'guest speaker', not a speaker, but the teacher, not the teacher but a part of the curriculum....
Sexuality of any nature has no business in grade schools, nor is it the domain for the state to interject.
Being sand in the gears is not enough here, its the principle.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
DeleteTouché, I see your point. I fall in the Filthie camp however. I believe it neccessary for them to remove the materials rather than make them use my tax money to buy another copy (has the inverse effect of selling another copy, compensating the author and publisher). An apology is meaningless if the person doesn't acknowledge and understand the infraction. I don't know my bible like I should but I think theres something in there like that. Can't forgive if they won't acknowledge the sin?
DeleteEverything you describe would fall under “hate crime”, Joe. If you get caught at it, you’ll face a show trial and public humiliation.
ReplyDeleteThere is no saving the public schools. When I violently overthrow the gubbimint and impose my will on the world, I will have the public schools burned to the ground, with the teachers trapped inside. Then I’ll salt the earth on which they stood.
We are beginning to see the proper way to handle these things in Europe. Recently in Fwance a small town mayor decided that virtue signalling was more important than the people he represented. He was moving toward importing African immigrants and migrants to the town and dumping them on the people to deal with. (He’s SO noble!!!)
So the townsfolk burned his house down. The people driving this will not stop. Further - they’re going to get worse. Groomers are already assaulting kids in the classrooms and getting away with it.
Civil disobedience will not deter the Usual Suspects, they’ll just use your money to repair the damages and use your courts against you the same way they are using the schools against you and the kids. They are better cheaters, liars, and thugs than you ever will be as a patriotic citizen. For them there are no consequences or punishment when they get caught.
Until people are willing to get their hands dirty, nothing will change.
Until people are willing to get their hands dirty, nothing will change.
DeleteSadly true.
That's when it becomes important to be untraceable... Then can only attack you if they can ID you.
DeleteThere have been similar things done in the US that the media is scared to cover.
Mis-shelf the book, and put it in some dusty tomes that haven't been checked out in years.
ReplyDeleteIf only... sigh The library dinks are the ones pushing it on the children in a lot of systems.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeleteDo the books have bar-codes on the spine?
ReplyDeleteMany places with complicated inventory use bar-codes.
Might be worth adding a few extra lines with a sharpie before mis-shelving.
That just renders the barcode unreadable. Instead print out a compatible barcode onto an adhesive label trimmed to fit. Alter the data to match some other book's barcode, preferably something obscure.
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Book burning is a double edged sword. Careful.
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