Scholastic Sees The Light

The worst thing about this whole Mickey Mouse mockumentary about 9-11, to me, was that Scholastic, purportedly an educational organization, was going to deliver this baseless garbage to thousands of high schools as a teaching tool. Thanks to public outcry, that will no longer happen. This is a good outcome. Education should not involve fictionalized events in place of history.

Educational media giant Scholastic, Inc. announced it's dropping its original classroom companion guides to a controversial new docudrama, and replacing them with materials stressing critical thinking and media literacy.

"After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," said Dick Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO of Scholastic, in a press release.

Now, it's on to ABC. But that'll be a tougher nut to crack, given that they're: