«
The library is a safe place to have civil discourse,» she says.
Not exact matches
A
safe stranger
is someone that they can go to for help — like a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or someone who works at a school,
library or other
safe place.
«But when you take a
library and an innocent child in a
place where a child should
be safe and under watch and supervised, and a crime of this magnitude happens here to one of our tenders, we really do have to revisit how we protect our citizens.»
School administrators who refuse to
place children in an alternative
safe and appropriate environment (such as the school
library) during the testing period
are not only engaging in an unethical form of bullying, but they
are violating the State of Connecticut's Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) regulations.
Voloch told of one student who described the HCC
library as her favorite
place in the Bronx, a
place that
's quiet and
safe and which allows her to envision herself as a real college student.
«There
was a survey that the British released last week that showed LGBTI kids nominated
libraries as their
safe place against bullying, so they've always
been that vacuum of freedom and the ability to gain access to information,» he said.
The school
library is a
safe and dynamic
place that can provide professionally curated content to every student — content that, once mastered, prepares kids for college and their careers.
For example, among
library users, 85 % of immigrant Latinos say that offering a quiet,
safe place to spend time, read or study
is a «very important» service offered by public
libraries for themselves and their families.
I suspect that we frequently opt to hold training sessions in the
library because it
is more convenient for US — we don't have to move out of our
safe place.