Posted on 12/09/2011 8:46:28 AM PST by Nachum
Scholastic Inc. is a nearly century-old educational publishing company that distributes books, magazines, and other teaching materials through the schools.
If you have kids (or remember from your own grade-school days), Scholastic puts out news bulletins that get sent home weekly or monthly.
One of those items is Scholastic News, which bills itself as “America’s Leading News Source for kids.”
Reader Edward has a daughter in fourth grade who brought home the December issue of Scholastic News — and he wasn’t too happy when he saw the publication’s coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Read for yourself (click for full-size):
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Reader Edward wrote to Scholastic: I grew up in Soviet Union and seeing your propaganda about Occupy Wall Street brings back my memories. I do not remember seeing in any of your editions anything about Tea Party movement. I’m neither Republican or Democrat but I would rather see my kids hear about both sides.
We're ALL "getting" the MSM...
I don’t get it.
This looks pretty innocuous to me. Are they supposed to not mention it or tell why people are doing it?
Somebody’s beeber is a bit too sensitive.
Does the Tea Party get an equally fair shake?
No, your beeber covered with mud.
The article - which is the only article millions of schoolchildren will actually read about the subject, is visually race-baiting and an intellectually socialist screed that completely lacks balance, appropriateness or even legitimate applicability to what the Occupy bowel movement really has turned out to be, in actuality.
But hey, other than that, it's fine.
What is “socialist” about the screed? It states what the protestors claim are their objectives. The article doesn’t take a position on their objectives.
Is reading comprehension that hard?
I agree that OWS are a bunch of idealistic simpletons, but the purpose of this article was to explain to children what these people are doing and why. Just a simple, factual article.
Not a single Republican is quoted.
OWS is described as "worldwide" and about jobless and fairness and equity. Tea Party is described as "extreme" and "angry."
Do you NOT see the difference?
When I was in school the news rag from Scholastic was called “My Weekly Reader”, and was basically filled with pro-U.N. propaganda.
No surprise from Scholastic. When I got that rag in school during the “perestroika” period, they were schilling for the commies. I remember one article about communism where they basically said communists just want to “share” everything fairly. Telling that to kids raised with a Sesame Street view of “sharing” and it’s nothing but propaganda.
The Occupiers have no objectives.
Kinda like the Tea Party, where if someone claims they're a leader, they're not. Small groups therein may have a leader, but the movement does not.
Likewise, anyone claiming to have a list of Occupy objectives doesn't. Small groups therein may have objectives, but the movement does not.
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