Reply #13: Huh? [View All]

[LWolf]

My school just finished a scholastic book fair, and I didn't see any of that crap. We're a K-8 school.

I did find one book I decided not to place in my classroom; a book from the "Shadow Children" sequence. Big brother cracks down on 3rd children by killing them in the spirit of population control. Portrays the idea of limiting human population according to available resources as bad, with goons enforcing the idea by killing innocents. No discussion of actual responsible reproduction, or of any responsible ways to respond to the crisis. Just bad, sensationalistic fiction. A whole series worth.

Having done many book fairs during my years as school librarian and parent, I can say that scholastic is the easiest, most profitable book fair to do, with the widest selection of materials. They are very well organized.

That says something about the bigger picture, I think. We often lose campaigns and lose on issues, not because we don't have the better position, but because we are not as well organized as the opposition. How do we organize ourselves without slowly becoming the enemy?