School Library and Overdue Late Fees

The new school year has started and some parents are already having to keep track of where those library books their children bring home from school disappear too. Why?

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Simple, they don’t want to pay the ridiculous late fees that come with it. Recently my own daughter ended up bringing home a note that told us she’d missed two library days because she hadn’t returned her book. Funny thing was we had no clue. We can’t exactly know what’s going on at school if we aren’t informed.

We were finally sent a note stating this and then a week later a note from the school library telling us she could no longer check out books unless she returned them. Further it stated if we could not find said book we could pay a fine, only there was no mention of how much it cost. We searched everywhere for the book but we couldn’t find it with the name of the author they gave, later we would find the book but wrong author. Apparently they had the wrong author in the system, but we did have the right book. So the case of the missing book has finally been solved.

Today I read that an anonymous person returned two very late library books with a $1000 money order for the late fees. The books were said to have been lost back in 1959 when the person’s family immediately moved and the books were accidentally packed away. However, even though it has been 50 years, they were returned. Talk about a responsible person.

Have you ever had late fees from the library?