SCHOLASTIC: Helping Children Around The World Read, Learn and Play Video Games!
Posted on September 13, 2006
Filed Under Books/Magazines
Do you remember when you were in grade school and every few months, you would get the Scholastic Catalogue. You would get so excited and convince your parents to buy the latest books by R.L Stine or Judy Blume.
I was fortunate to get a copy of the Back to School Catalogue from my 10 year old cousin. I felt like I was a kid again, filled with excitement as I browse through the pages, smiling and recognizing some of the authors and books I’ve read as a kid. Unfortunately that excitement didn’t last long, as I flip to the middle of the catalogue and was shock to find a complete spread called Interactive, where scholastic was soliciting video games!
What the hell was this crap? I said to myself. Scholastic slogan is “Helping Children around The World Read and Learnâ€, this completely goes against that. Although I may agree that some interactive games may be educational like ‘#1 Math Success’ or ‘Learn How to Speak French’. I don’t find anything educational about Pirates of the Caribbean for Gameboy Advance, MX vs. ATV Unleashed, or the Bratz Rock Angel PC game.
In today’s generations, kids have access to resources and information to get them through school. How do kids learn these days anyway, when you have Microsoft Word to do your spell check, Excel to calculate your answers, and the Internet to plagiarize a paper. I guess Scholastic recognizes that grade school kids, have become more technology driven with the iPods, internet, cell phones and video games, that they were forced to jump the bandwagon to ensure they keep their market share. After all they are a business first, before teachers.
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DAMN I miss my Dr. Seuss books.. Do you like green eggs & ham Christian?.. Lol.. Or those “Where’s Waldo” ones.. Man, those were the days, shit that guy was very hard to find at times, it’s amazing how he can really blend in the crowd wearing that white & red striped shirt..
Aww, c’mon, Pirates of the Carribean is very helpful to the young kids, what the heck are you talking about.. Children nowadays should be taught very early in life on swordsmanship & gunslinging (hobby), swinging on ropes (exercise), wearing eyepatches (different types of attire), & using the words, “Aaaarrr Aaaarrr maaatey” (vocabulary skills)..
We should always be prepared for the future, who knows, one of these days, Pirates suddenly might come & invade Winnipeg, ofcourse it’s very unlikely since it’s fuckin’ cold here, but it might just happen.. And who’s going to save us, the kids!.. Hahah!..
But about the Bratz Rock Angel game you wrote up there, now that’s garbage.. 100% pure crap man.. Shit, those girls don’t even have freakin noses, how the heck do they use their sense of smell, through their ears?.. WTF..