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A public library that keeps the public out: Somerville closing central library for hours each weekday after bad behavior (www.bostonglobe.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems to me that there might have been a better way to handle this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The move came after a year in which library staff complained about rampant misbehavior among rowdy teenagers at the library, Strezo said, including reports of teens lighting firecrackers, getting into fights, and disturbing peers who had come to study or relax after a long day at school.

There is a better way: parents can teach their kids fucking manners. Clearly some of them know how to behave in public, so why are the rest being such little shits?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's hardly an actionable policy suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Indeed, it's not a policy issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What was the policy that made parents raise their kids right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I apologize I came off as a troll, I was reading the comment thread about how parents should raise their kids and the response comment about the way parents raise their kids isn't a policy issue. I didn't see anything in the article about how a policy changed the way parents changed their kids behavior to fix the issue.

I believe we just talked past each other as the policy fixed the problem of bad behavior occurring in the library during those hours which is true.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Who needs logic? They have strong feelings!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

I get where you're coming from, but I think anything concerning human behavior and how they use the services absolutely is a policy issue.