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Elizabethtown board votes to unendorse student-built Little Free Libraries, will keep boxes on district property
Summary
The school board voted to mark the district's small, student-built book-exchange boxes as unendorsed and exempt from policy 109, while keeping them on school grounds and asking administration to add disclaimers and consult the solicitor on language.
The Elizabethtown Area School District board voted June 24 to declare the district's small, student-built book-exchange boxes unendorsed by the district and therefore excluded from the requirements of Policy 109, while allowing the boxes to remain on school property.
Board President Steven Lindemuth opened the discussion and turned the item over to Director Daniel Gillis, who framed the issue as whether the Little Free Library located at East High and two similar boxes could remain on district property without being treated as district-endorsed library collections. Gillis moved to exclude the boxes from the policy; the motion was seconded and approved by roll call.
The vote followed a lengthy public comment period in which parents, students and community groups described the boxes as student-led literacy projects and community resources. Jim Safford, president of the eTown Area Education Association, urged the board to respect teacher…
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