Libraries

For several years, the Minneapolis libraries have been in a sorry state due to lack of funding. Many old neighbhorhood libraries were shut down, and all the rest have kept very short hours: each just 5 days per week, only open 6-8 hours at a time, and not open on SUNDAYS. Now, though, the city libraries have access to enough funding from a county-wide sales tax (that exists to build a new baseball stadium) to be open on Sundays.

How can you expect children to learn the art of procrastination if they can't go to the library on Sunday to write their reports that are due on Monday? I suppose kids don't need to use the sets of encyclopedias at the library to write reports these days, what with the internets.