My call to Scholastic... [View All]

[whalerider55]

I spoke with someone in customer services regarding the Scholastic tie-in with "Path to 9-11".

This person was unaware of the controversy; when I told them that I was sitting member of a School Commitee, and that I was beginning to have conversations with parents who were appalled at the tie-in with ABC over the production, and the call this morning by President CLinton to pull the show from the airwaves, she perked up- I suggested she get the message over to corporate, which she agreed to do.

Told her that parents had been long expressing concern to me about Scholastic tying into commerical productions, but that providing an educational cover to what was clearly a piece of political propaganda was likely to drive our parents to action.

And that as a sitting school committee member, not representing the whole school committee but acting on behalf of myself and constituents, was willing to work with those parents to impact Scholastic's bottom line.

I'll keep you updated.


whalerider