Lorax being used to sell Mazda SUVs to school children- assisted by the NEA

[yellowcanine]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-schools-insider/post/the-lorax-helps-market-mazda-suvs-to-elementary-school-children-nationwide/2012/02/28/gIQAQhRMiR_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost


This is disgraceful. The NEA and Mazda should be ashamed, not to mention the local school districts permitting this.

One kid knows better and gets it right.....

Some reached out to touch the cars. A few kneeled to have their photographs taken. Others erupted into a spontaneous chant. “Lorax car, Lorax car, Lorax car!” they said.

One of their classmates quietly objected.

“The Lorax doesn’t drive a car,” he said.

[Brickbat]

1. The more school budgets are cut, the more they're put into a position of having to swallow this crap

to get the money for basics. Gross all the way around.

[yellowcanine]

2. Yes but I reject the notion that they "have to swallow this crap."

Ultimately the responsibility for what goes on at school is in the hands of the educators - they can and should say no to marketing anything to school children.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Dr. Seuss is probably rolling in his grave

This is an abomination, a complete 180 degrees from the whole point of "The Lorax"

[FarCenter]

4. It was all a fraud anyway: Dr Seuss was not a doctor

[LiberalEsto]

5. He didn't pretend to be one. It was a pen name

for a brilliant writer of children's books.

I don't understand why you consider him to be a fraud.

[raouldukelives]

6. Cool! Maybe they can do Walden next.

With the Thoreau Edition Ford F-5000 super truck to carry your family unit in style and comfort to the great outdoors.