The School day has started. Has Scholastic provided anything yet?

[GOTV]

Teachers still have the old guides and students are starting their last class for the week.

I don't see anything on their site.

I've emailed them and my school board this morning.

What little they're doing, they're doing too late to make any difference.

[babylonsister]

1. Don't worry; Scholastic pulled out of the deal yesterday. See here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2816076

[GOTV]

3. I've been there, I've commented there, it's not true.

It is not physically possible for them to "pull out" of the deal. Their study guides have already been distributed. Their part in this fiasco has been completed.

What they should do how is to take positive steps to fix the problem.

[babylonsister]

4. I stand corrected. I didn't realize their guides had

already been printed/distributed. But that doesn't mean they have to use them. But now I'm skeptical also.

[peacetalksforall]

2. The real damage is not the film - it's Scholastic. Evidently,

they entered into this teaching the children crap innocently or by design. I would hope it was innocently. If not, damn them. Teaching children lies and pretending it as truth is a horrible crime. They are being portrayed as heores for backing out, but the damage is done.

Whoever messes with the heads of kids are criminals.

Claiming that they have pulled out is a magician's trick.

Have they laid out a plan for recall? What have they done to pull it?

Who at Scholastic vetted this?
Who at Scholastic took money for their participation in this?
Who at Scholastic took favors for their participation in this?

Let Sholastic lay out exactly how they were innocent. The rhetoric we heard yesterdayis not enough.

Ask Scholastic to spend whatever money that is required to fight anyone who infringes on the copyright.

Please see the danger here. Two nights of watching a film will fade. Books and dvds do not fade especially in the hands of fundamental home-scoolers and church schools.

Whoever came up with a campaign to teach kids based on a fictionalized film was a genius. Recognize it and confront it.

What is the difference between the USSR and America? The pretense of capitalism and democracy. It's all a hoax. A sinsiter hoax. Recognize it.

Can you picture the Congressional leaders who have stood at the podium and ranted against the brainwashing of Cuban children? Whatever they rant about is the same crime committed here. The only difference is the sinister affront to truth.

We are being led by sinister hypocrites. We can't be hypocritical by the act of not protecting our children.

[GOTV]

5. New guides have been published

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=175

[LWolf]

6. I am surprised.

How many people think teachers sit around waiting for television networks to provide content, and for publishing companies to print guides to tell them what to do with the content? Really?

Of course, I haven't traveled through schools and districts in all 50 states. I've only taught in two states, and many schools, over two decades. I've never known a teacher who brought in commercial tv programs as a resource. I've known some who brought in some PBS documentaries. Documentaries, not "docudramas." Some might have begun using the History channel, although I find their stuff to be narrow in scope and perspective. But pulling a fictional version of a recent tragedy in to present as "teachable" recent history? Does anyone really know that teachers in their local schools are planning to show this, or use any of Scholastic's stuff? It's not exactly a mandate. If you are concerned, you might call your school, ask if they are showing or using this stuff, and then tell them to opt your kids out if they are. I doubt many people would actually have to opt out, but if any school is actually using the stuff, parents can act at that level.