[LM_NET] RANT:Anti-Scholastic movement in my district

[Ron Wagner <Ron.Wagner@VANSD.ORG>]

In our 2500+ student district, one parent complained that Scholastic has a 
"monopoly" on book orders and wanted the distribution of book club materials 
stopped.  Our district lawyer agreed, and took it one step further:  We can no 
longer have book fairs that are open during "instructional time" because we do not 
want to allow a company to sell things to kids while they should be learning.  We'd 
have to have it open only during recesses or after school.  With our 675+ kids, 
that would not work, so we stand to lose hundreds of dollars of book money for 
classrooms.

Has anyone else even heard of this?  





Ron Wagner
Teacher-Librarian
Felida Elementary School
Vancouver, WA
ron.wagner@vansd.org

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