{"id":6421,"date":"2023-11-14T08:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2023-11-12T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T02:17:58","slug":"university-initiates-book-drive-for-local-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/university-initiates-book-drive-for-local-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"University Initiates Book Drive for Local Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of an effort to increase community impact, the University announced a new partnership with Ray Elementary School in Hyde Park: students in the College will now be prompted to donate their SOSC and HUMA course books upon completion of their core course requirement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Jeannie Walters, a fourth grade teacher at the elementary school, \u201cWe\u2019re so excited! This year we\u2019ll <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finally<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have enough copies of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elementary Forms of Religious Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for everyone!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asked about her lesson plans, Ms. Walters responded, \u201cIt\u2019ll be hard, but I think we can do it. Parents will need to pitch in as well, make sure kids are doing the readings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked about the book drive program, one parent responded, \u201cWait, they\u2019re selling the books, right? For money? And then they\u2019re giving us the money. Right?\u201d The parent expressed disappointment upon being provided with an out of print edition of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Marx Engels Reader <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for \u201clight summer reading.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A local action group, United Mothers of Chicago, has also expressed alarm at the program. \u201cWe need our kids to be learning arithmetic and grammar. Not the friggin\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summa Theologica.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ray Elementary School has launched its own reciprocal book drive as well. The University Library expressed gratitude this past Saturday upon receiving a box set of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Magic Tree House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, missing only books 13, 18, and 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about the book drive program, one parent responded, \u201cWait, they\u2019re selling the books, right? For money? And then they\u2019re giving us the money. Right?\u201d The parent expressed disappointment upon being provided with an out of print edition of The Marx Engels Reader for \u201clight summer reading.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2080,"featured_media":6426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6427,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/6427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}