Library aide sacked for standing up for kid who won the summer reading program

[thewayne]

silveradept posted about this recently.  In Hudson Falls there was a library aide who had worked there for 28 years.  Enter a nine year old kid who, for the fifth year running, won the summer reading program.  The library director thought this discouraged kids from reading, and decided that the winner would be drawn from a hat of all the kids who read at least ten books during the summer.  After all, the kid had run away with such fabulous prizes as a t-shirt, a sports bottle, and a bunch of certificates.

The library aide went to the local media to get the kid some recognition.  And got sacked.  No explanation, just a call from the library board of trustees that you no longer have a job.  But at least she wasn't alone, the library director was also sacked.

There's a petition circulating on Change.Org to try and convince the library's board of trustees to get her job back.

http://www.change.org/petitions/hudson-falls-free-library-board-of-trustees-apologize-to-lita-casey-and-offer-to-reinstate-her?share_id=XrloaDauyF&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition


Info about her getting fired: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/09/librarian-fired-actually-getting-kid-read-contest-lita-casey/69606/