I somehow read most of the article thinking this was about a college, and was rather abhorred at the notion. Then I came across the ages of the students and the impressively low amount of checked out books, and suddenly things made a lot more sense. What does a HS need a library for, unless perhaps it's located in some thinly populated area where public libraries are few and far between? That clearly isn't the case here, though. And if so very few books were checked out, that means the books were barely used so then getting rid of them isn't all that shocking.