Scholastic Publishing Has Lost Their Mind! | A Discussion

Hey ya'll! In this video, I'm talking about the fact that scholastic publishing has lost their mind with the new option they have for book fairs. If you haven't heard about this yet make sure you check out some of the articles below:

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[ericchristopher]

Wow ~ "Reading widely at a young age builds empathy." Double wow. The best literary statement of 2023. Thank you.

[SheraBeforeTheStorm]

Here's the thing. Parents are allowed to come to the school. If they don't want their child getting certain books at the fair, they need to show up and help their child make choices. Not pawn it all off on teachers and companies.

[JennatheSoulWriter]

As a developmental reading teacher and an English teacher... I am going to need some time to get off my soap box and pick my mouth up off the floor. Scholastic. HOW DARE YOU. We fight so much to make this mode of personal expression available... and we fight so much for kids to have OPTIONS. Why are we limiting them again? They silenced us in the arts in the 90s. We can't let them do it with words!

[marisagettas]

I knew nothing about this. I raced to see if Canada is participating in this foolishness (they aren’t, FYI). I’m with you, this is about Scholastic protecting their pockets AND keeping away from legal challenges/lawsuits etc. It’s disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. That teacher who got her diverse pack too late? I bet that was a feature, not a bug. Thanks for letting us know Ashley

[kaitydid]

That is so horrible and disheartening for scholastic to exclude diverse titles. I got "I am Enough" for my 11 yr old niece when she was younger

[BooksToAshes]

Children get unfettered access to the internet constantly by these SAME parents who don’t want these books around their kids. Do they not realize how much worse the internet is?! They don’t want to parent their child, they want to control others, it’s so gross

[thenubianreview]

We need to collectively BAN Scholastics and promote independent authors. Promoting the banned books so parents have the option to purchase them for themselves. I already have many banned titles in my home library because representation is extremely important. This is most unfortunate, and I fear for the future of our children, this is why voting is important and I stress to others to get involved in any way you can. I read this about a month ago, thanks for discussing it with the world, hope this conversation goes viral!

[Rieboppers]

You spoke straight facts. Scholastic is a corporation. All of their decisions are made for the benefit of their bottom line and making shareholders happy.

[sidneyn]

Thank you for speaking on this. It is so beyond unacceptable.

[kittyshiv]

as if there isnt enough hate in the world, this is appalling. you are 100% right, kids need to learn YOUNG empathy towards everyone, reading is so fundamental in doing so.

[PlanetShannonTV]

I heard this recently on Instagram, and was completely shocked and disappointed. Thank you for letting people know it's going on!

[heyimsasa]

i’m at work and when you said they were letting schools opt in/out of diverse titles, my jaw dropped. that’s absolutely abhorrent that they’d let schools keep kids ignorant like wtf they’re catapulting the careers of cishet white books while actively silencing those who are bipoc, lgbt+, nonbinary, etc. that’s fucking nasty.

[brandonperlow]

The plan for these rightwingers is to have these kids not have empathy, nor understanding of our past. The cruelty is the point.

[carterfrvr]

I was waiting for you to do a video on this! And the nerve of them to call the "optional books" the "Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice" collection --- how can you SHARE something if the other party has to OPT IN to it?!?! I read in SLJ that Rep. John Lewis' books were in the collection, as well as Ruby Bridges. Book fairs are a big way for kids to purchase books since they could not independently go to a bookstore. They are just kowtowing to conservatives while saying "well, what can you do?".

[onceuponamelody]

This used to be something handled by parents on an individual basis. Now, some bigots have gotten bees in their bonnets to a point where they think they can parent OTHER people's children. I had NO IDEA this was something Scholastic would ever think of doing. Thank you for talking about this.

[ensie]

I quit my job at Scholastic Book Fairs six months ago after 14 years. I've been sharing some of what I know on TikTok, but the more people that contact Scholastic to complain, the more likely they will make adjustments. Just be kind to the service, sales, and customer reps that have no control over the nonsense the corporate leadership is committing.

[Jamaicangurl]

I feel like this isn't real life... Wow.. Where are we?? 😳
Parents just out here stepping all the way from raising their own kid and then getting mad at teachers when they come to realize they don't know their kids or trust them to know what to buy

[edamamameU]

This is absolutely infuriating and terrifying at the same. I am extremely disappointed in Scholastic in choosing to line their pockets instead of standing up for diversity. Book banning and censorship is happening on an increasing basis in the United States and I don't think that we are as worried as a nation as we should be. As Ashley mentioned, reading diverse titles helps to build empathy and understanding. It is beyond disturbing when one of the largest publishers in the U.S. turns a blind to book banning in the name of capitalism.

[tyghe_bright]

Man, when I saw this news I said the exact same thing, until, like you, I realized they're clearly more interested in preserving profit and influence than in education.
I'm not a parent or an educator or a librarian... but it still affects me, because it matters what kids have access to. It shapes the future.

[TruthWordMezmur]

Thanks for bringing this up. And the wild thing is that most of the book challenges are by a handful of parents, so to see a large publisher try to appease these handful of parents and not care of the majority of children and their parents is wild.