U-46 bring our librarians back full time!

One of the goals of Destination 2015 is to have 98% of 1st graders at Reading Level, we are losing our chance to get 1st graders excited about reading. There is no time for the librarian to read to the students, who knows if the children are read to at home. That leaves the student, who is not quite yet reading, to try and read the book the best they can and maybe get discouraged and just put the book down, because books are boring. Dr. Torres, I know costs are an issue but I do not believe the librarian's salaries are among the higher salaries in the district, yet their impact is huge. I can handle 30 kids in my daughter's 1st grade classroom, but when my daughter finishes her books and wants more, she has to wait 2 weeks to be able to bring more books home. Our full time librarian at Horizon allowed students to come in before school and during the school day to return and check out more books, we can't do that with a part-time librarian, she just doesn't have the time. My son is struggling to find a series that he hasn't read and is engaging enough so he will finish the chapter book, I know Mrs. Spengler would have found a series for him, because she knew him. Please reconsider adding full time librarians back into the schools for the upcoming school year.