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darchildre · 8 months ago

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My library system has decided that we need not one but two yearly Everybody Who Works for the Library in One Room All Day meetings. We had the first spring one today.

The keynote speaker was the superintendent of a local school district. During his talk, he showed three youtube videos:

A retelling of that not-actually-Native-American "Two Wolves" story

A video about education that had a section about how ADHD probably isn't real, "it's still under debate"

A video about motivation that quoted Jordan fucking Peterson.

This is not the worst keynote speaker we've ever had - he is still beaten by the author who got drunk, and the scammy health guru guy - but good lord.

#the best (read worst) thing was #that the morning session was all about disability ableism and how the library can be a better ally to our disabled patrons/staff #and then the fucking 'adhd isn't real' video happened #library folk are quiet and polite so there wasn't a lot of uproar at the actual meeting #but damn there is going to be some extremely pointed feedback in the coming week

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