Scholastic book fairs

[Anonymous]

Before you send money with your student to purchase books at a school fair, make sure you know how they've re-labled some of their case as "Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice" - and schools can elect to not have that case. They're caving to the M4L crowd.

[Anonymous]

what are you talking about? what is M4L

[Anonymous]

Meh.

Not going to punish my child over it.

[Anonymous]

Mid-40s Lesbians?

[Anonymous]

My kid's elementary is super lefty so I'm pretty sure half the books will be about sex changes and black people.

[Anonymous]

Moms For Liberty. Anti-vax, pro-censorship.

Literati Book Fairs are a pro-diversity alternative to scholastic and I think their prices are better, too. Something to consider when you're booking your next fair.
https://literati.com/bookfairs/

Article from EdWeek about this:
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/scholastic-says-schools-can-exclude-diverse-titles-from-book-fairs/2023/10#:~:text=By%20separating%20these%2064%20books,titles%20at%20a%20book%20fair.

Even if your child is not affected by Scholastic's censorship, kids in pro-censorship districts will be. That's another queer kid growing up feeling like she's all wrong because she doesn't see herself represented anywhere; kids of color forced to subsist on a diet of white kidlit. It's harmful. Thanks for this post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh.

Not going to punish my child over it.

How would you punish your child over it? If you get your children’s books from them they are censoring them for you. Your child will have no idea about the quality books she couldn’t buy.

We go to independent bookstores or Barnes and Nobles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moms For Liberty. Anti-vax, pro-censorship.

Literati Book Fairs are a pro-diversity alternative to scholastic and I think their prices are better, too. Something to consider when you're booking your next fair.
https://literati.com/bookfairs/

Article from EdWeek about this:
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/scholastic-says-schools-can-exclude-diverse-titles-from-book-fairs/2023/10#:~:text=By%20separating%20these%2064%20books,titles%20at%20a%20book%20fair.

Even if your child is not affected by Scholastic's censorship, kids in pro-censorship districts will be. That's another queer kid growing up feeling like she's all wrong because she doesn't see herself represented anywhere; kids of color forced to subsist on a diet of white kidlit. It's harmful. Thanks for this post.

I think they only ban books about Black people standing up to racism. True stories about Black baseball players having to stay at different hotels and Ruby at six years old had to go to school with guards because White people would throw things at her. The bans on the stories of Black athletes were banned in Florida.

[Anonymous]

We can get books plenty of other places and will not be buying from companies that censor US history.

[Anonymous]

So much disinformation and emotional mis-reporting is in this thread. Go read what Scholastic themselves have said, which is that they will always offer a wide range of fully inclusive books.

Schools always have made local decisions about which books to bring to their specific book fair. Scholastic does not now and never did make those decisions.

[Anonymous]

There is already a multi-page thread on this topic.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1162588.page#26005865

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mid-40s Lesbians?

Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaa! Thanks for the laugh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh.

Not going to punish my child over it.

How would you punish your child over it? If you get your children’s books from them they are censoring them for you. Your child will have no idea about the quality books she couldn’t buy.

We go to independent bookstores or Barnes and Nobles.

I'm not going to tell them they can't buy anything. If they want something specific, we'll go find somewhere to buy it. Sorry, just can't see getting up in arms about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moms For Liberty. Anti-vax, pro-censorship.

Literati Book Fairs are a pro-diversity alternative to scholastic and I think their prices are better, too. Something to consider when you're booking your next fair.
https://literati.com/bookfairs/

Article from EdWeek about this:
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/scholastic-says-schools-can-exclude-diverse-titles-from-book-fairs/2023/10#:~:text=By%20separating%20these%2064%20books,titles%20at%20a%20book%20fair.

Even if your child is not affected by Scholastic's censorship, kids in pro-censorship districts will be. That's another queer kid growing up feeling like she's all wrong because she doesn't see herself represented anywhere; kids of color forced to subsist on a diet of white kidlit. It's harmful. Thanks for this post.

I think they only ban books about Black people standing up to racism. True stories about Black baseball players having to stay at different hotels and Ruby at six years old had to go to school with guards because White people would throw things at her. The bans on the stories of Black athletes were banned in Florida.

Oh, please. You can buy the Who Was books literally anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid's elementary is super lefty so I'm pretty sure half the books will be about sex changes and black people.

Ha! Same but more like 75% of the books. It’s a bit much and feels like agenda pushing. I’m fine with a mix to represent different people and families, but it is getting way disproportional