I used to be a teacher and I am currently governor of a local primary school, which is having some problems with standards in literacy. Its library is very small indeed, and there are some children there from deprived backgrounds who according to the Head possess no books at all.
At home we probably have too many books. Recently we were redecorating the kids' rooms and I realised we had accumulated many duplicates of kids' classics (Roald Dahl etc), plus there were top quality story books, as well as reference books of various types that I thought they wouldn't need again (eg guides to caring for certain pets, 100 DIY science experiments, how to draw stuff, children's atlases, that kind of thing). My teacher antennae twitched and I thought to myself, hey, these are top quality, current books, and would be great for the school. So I took the bag up there and donated the lot. I suggested they could be used for the school library, as they had been asking for donations, or alternatively they could be given to any kids who felt they might want to use them, as freebies.
Today the school sent the entire bag of stuff home.
AIBU to feel a bit offended?