Talked to Scholastic....lady has only had one call about Path to 9/11

They are a good company whom I used frequently when I was teaching. She knew nothing about it, but is passing it on to the NY office.
She was concerned, and very appreciative of my call. I said it would only take a couple of people not paying attention for a company to get involved in such. She agreed.
I found this contact info at Kos:

Scholastic

Phone: 212-343-6741, 212-343-6100
557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

Richard Robinson, CEO
Email: rrobinson@scholastic.com

Jeffrey Mathews, Vice President, Investor Relations, or Tonia Bellamy
Phone: 212-343-6741
Email: investor_relations@scholastic.com

Corporate Communications: 212-343-4563
news@scholastic.com

Customer Service:
Phone: 212-343-6741, 800-724-6527 (toll-free)
M-F, 7:00 am to 9:00 pm and Sat., 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CST


Link to their lesson plans:
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=415

from the president of Scholastic Books. Her contact info is posted below.

"I am always available to hear any of your ideas or suggestions for how we can make Scholastic Book Clubs better for you and your students. Please e-mail me anytime at judy.newman@scholastic.com or write to me at 557 Broadway, New York, New York 10012. If you need to let us know of a school change, grade change, or want more catalogs, please contact customer service directly at bookclubs@scholastic.com or 1-800-SCHOLASTIC (1-800-724-6527) and they will be happy to assist you."

Judy Newman
President, Scholastic Book Clubs

and how about contacting teachers unions too? Shouldn't they be making teachers aware of what their children are being presented with? A sort of warning label, and if teachers wrote to Scholastic they couldn't ignore it.

I plan call my local High Schools to find out if the plan to support this propaganda.

when I was a kid in the '60's.

They had "fair and balanced" coverage of the controversy
about the Vietnam war. They had two spokesmen for the war.
They had only one against the war. He had a beard, and
the caption noted that he had achieved some notice for
expressing Nazi views.

I have not seen any since I retired. I think many companies have been pre-empted by the Bush administration cronies.

Thanks.

I don't have the link readily available, but I gave it to the lady. I will see if I can find it.

They don't expressly "promote" it, but they encourage viewing as though it were a realistic representation.

From what I understand, they do not know it is a drama.

Sorry I forgot them.

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=415

specific lesson plan(s).

I never have and never will deal with "scholastic." I made sure the other teachers in my school knew about this too. Again, thanks for posting.:)

Let's give em hell DU!

Your email regarding the 9/11 Classroom Discussion
Guide created by Scholastic was forwarded to me, and I am pleased to
respond to your concerns. Once the materials are posted online, you will
be able to access the complete discussion guide at
www.scholastic.com/pathto911, and I hope you will take time to review
the content for yourself.

Scholastic does not take a position regarding the ABC miniseries, "The
Path to 911." What we have done is to create a Classroom Discussion
Guide for high school teachers with content that is balanced, fair and
open-ended. Two of the key objectives of the guide are "to engage
critical-thinking and critical-viewing skills" and "to remind students
to view what they absorb from the media with a critical eye." We trust
that teachers will take the information we provide and encourage their
students to evaluate the content of the miniseries against these facts
and other resources and research that are available to them. These
materials are provided free of charge to teachers in grades 9 to 12 who
can choose whether or not to utilize the lessons in their classrooms.

Scholastic appreciates hearing from teachers, parents, and others who
use or evaluate our services. Your comments will be shared with our
editorial staff who continue to seek to improve the quality of the
materials we create for use in schools and homes. Please review the
content of the 9/11 classroom guide when it is posted online and
consider the opportunity it offers for developing critical thinking and
relevant, timely discussion among high school students who have grown up
in the post-9/11 era.

Sincerely

Kyle Good

Vice President, Corporate Communications & Media Relations

Scholastic Inc.

news@scholastic.com

Scholastic seems unable to take honesty seriously.

Immediately.

That makes me sick.

"to remind students to view what they absorb from the media with a critical eye?"

I mean, what the fuck? What does a "docudrama" have to do with the real media coverage? If it's real, show real footage of the time. Don't recreate shit that didn't happen and film it as fact.

I got a response by using these email addresses

judy.newman@scholastic.com <judy.newman@scholastic.com>
rrobinson@scholastic.com <rrobinson@scholastic.com>
news@scholastic.com <news@scholastic.com>

There is a recorded message saying that,due to the large volume of calls on the ABC program.....blah,blah, blah....
They say that they are not taking a stand, merely producing educational materials and discussion points to help students develop critical thinking skills.
Believe me, critical thinking skills are the LAST thing the Repukes want the next generation of students to have.

I blasted them (via voicemail).

I am going to do that tomorrow. Maybe the curriculum supervisor. I was looking online and that was the best I could find.

The link content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=415 no longer works. I swear this linked work an hour ago.

Here us the cached link

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:OiHYHaLGwNkJ:content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp%3Fid%3D415+scholastic+path+to+9/11+lesson+plans&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Maybe they are getting a little traffic? }(

I know that I've called ABC previously and not had the trouble I did today. I was transferred to dead lines, cut off, disconnected, etc. When I did get a line, it was voice mail with a 30 second limit. :eyes:

Thanks for the link--I'll get in touch with them tomorrow! :)

them.

Or did they do this for a purpose?

I will pull my son out of that school and protest that video rather than let my son be brainwashed by such a blatant rewrite of history.

Our history books are bad enough (Please read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen) but this is recent and can be stopped right now.

I am writing Scholastic to say the same.

Rp

is now only available at the cached link above. ????

Check out DailyKos. Iraq and Iran are mentioned as contries involved in 9/11.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/5/13855/56368

None of the links in this thread work and I can't find it by searching the Scholastic site.