WELLINGTON COUNTY – Upper Grand District School Board says local school library shelves are full following the discovery in Peel Region that nearly 50 per cent of the library’s books had been removed.
Peel Region’s School Board says the book removal was as a part of a deselection process aimed at creating equity in materials.
Meanwhile, the Upper Grand District School Board, tells The Grand at 101 in a written statement it “is the policy of UGDSB to provide a wide range of acceptable learning resources at varying levels of difficulty, with diversity of appeal and representing different points of view to meet the needs of students and teachers.”
The statement also pointed out that teacher-librarians can select appropriate reading resources for school library collections and are adept at matching students with the materials that are best suited to them.
Students who attend schools in the Peel District School Board say they’ve seen half-empty shelves at their libraries as the school year begins, with some popular fiction texts missing.
Meanwhile, Ontario’s education minister asked the Peel board to put an immediate stop to its weeding process saying it was “illogical” to remove books from years past that educate students on history or are celebrated classics.
