@witato1 Why the hell do you think? Scholastic has been commercializing their book fairs by adding toys to get the children to buy more stuff, it ruins the spirit of a book fair and clearly they aren't happy about it.
ok seriously i fuckin HATE scholastic i pre-ordere the son of neptune back in july i know it doesent get shipped till it comes out but i shouldv gotten it by now and my mom called but the bitchy lady said it hadwnt been shipped yet and those kids im mean a good moral lterature and they put those things with the prodects to make them more apealing they also sell other stuff but at my school we have to buy two books before we can get anything cool
I am sorry but there is no way that those kids had those thoughts on their own. "Good literature", "colossal", "My teacher says". These kids are being told what to say. Shame on the teacher for leading these kids thoughs. You can tell that they are copying pre-written letters. I agree that Scholastic has alot of junk but they also have alot of good books. What do they want in the bookfair? Pride and prejudice or Jane Eyre? Come on! Give me a break.
I would like to say to some of the people that were very rude with their comments earlier that i was a student that was in this class 4 years ago. I am now graduating with high honors. At the end of that 4th grade year our teacher took us to the book fair, but all we saw was a bunch of junk toys. We then decided to write letters to Scholastic hoping that they would send educational books for our school to read. The next year Scholastic had read our letters and sent our school educational books:)
To all those people who posted rude comments: These kids will go more places and succeed better in their life because they are concerned about their education. They don't want to settle for mediocre -- GOOD FOR THEM! They want to strive for the best and because of that, they will do well.
Haha thoose r all 8 th graders now And they all still look the same and tht is bout queer shit I go 2 tht skwl and we havmlike no books at r book fair it's just like 2 year old pussy stuff
i am one of the kids in this video and mostly all of the comments are rude we did this video on things that we thought about scolastic and how much of a rip of they can be you dont sell games and posters at a "Book Fair " i mean look at the title book fair its not a toy fair or a poster fair if it was thats what it would be called we were just trying to get a point across so we dont need the negitivity !
@zebrasprinkels — "i mean look at the title book fair its not a toy fair,,,"
And if they had books available, then they fulfilled that task. The rest is add-on cross-selling...
It's a damn pity that Miss Neary squandered the opportunity to teach you about marketing and business economics that day... rather than shamefully manipulating kids into protesting for her causes.
all this video showed was kids complaining about the books they have in their book fair at least be grateful for what you have cuz their are a lot of kids out there that don't get to have one book and the money goes to your school also their at a young age let them have fun so just shut up and stop bitching!!
lol my school book fair was awesome ends tomorrow D: AND I BOUGHT ALOT i bought diary wimpykid rodrick rules CPpenguin Comics volume 1 Suit life zack and cody side by side and amelia rules I guess ill let my sis read that but the comics are so funny lol and im 9 years old this is really my uncles youtube account Ok bYe
I made the video Dear Scholastic Books as part of a Media Literacy, artist-in-residence. We filmed over ten videos that week on tobacco, alcohol, product placement, advertising etc.
This teacher had just completed the project.
I decided to simply use all of the students language verbatim from their letters. The filming took 45 min. At the Scholastic Book Sale I filmed all the bubble gum, tie-ins to films and TV shows, whoopee cushions, Bratz dolls etc. JV
To be fair, these things are used as fund raisers, not a place to stock your library. We participate every year because it's a way for the school to raise money as well as a chance for my kids to buy some stuff they normally wouldn't be able to. Here's a thought: If you don't like it, don't participate. Instead, go to a book store and buy books for your kids. Instead of bitching about Scholastic, why aren't you bitching about the waste of federal money in education? All these taxes...
What do taxes going to education have to do with Scholastic corrupting the notion of reading? In fact, if more of our taxes went to the schools they wouldnt be so dependent on fundraisers such as this. Instead of bitching about funding our schools why don't you bitch about corporate welfare and the over-inflated military budget?
I Both agree and disagree. Most of the kids sound like they WERE fed their opinions, but I don't think that because of their vocabulary. I had a great word library myself. Most of the kids love the toys, I know I did, HOWEVER, aside from toys, I wanted to get into a book--and sadly scholastic lately has been force feeding kids Miley Cyrus and the like. I wanted to read an actual book...And if my book fairs were like theirs is now, I would be bored and would have hated the things. That's just sad
Mrs. Neery is teaching the 4th grade because older children can make up their own minds. Maybe we should just get all of the media material that we don't agree with and burn it. Let's just burn all books. Really, grow up jrg1971jrg. Tell your true reason for this video post instead of hiding behind children and possibly turning them away from books forever.
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Also the school has the option of what they put out for the fair. If there is an issue with any product, they don't have to put it out. Mrs Neery just want's to make a profit and then complain about what she sold to these children.
They do have a choice, but it's very limited. The Scholastic book fair works as an order program with the catalogs received prior to the fair acting as a showcase of goods that will be included. While the schools have some decision over what goes into the book fair, most of the products 'geared towards kids' include a *learning tool* that is made to get them excited about reading. Unfortunately, these are toys, and the catalog is FULL of them. Not much choice exists...
It is fairly obvious the teacher has forced the students to write these letters and has given them talking points to go by. How many different times did I hear the words "bubblegum books", "appalled", and "irritated"?
This is a perfect example of what is wrong in today's educational system. Instead of the kids learning about a situation and forming their own opinion, they are force-fed the belief of the teacher. This creates a generation of kids always looking to others for their opinion.
I miss the order forms!!! To me, if you ordered from a form, it was less expensive and your anticipation builded up for the book. I remember getting my first copy of Shonen Jump with my new friend. We were so excited we tore off the plastic wrapping in a heartbeat. We couldn't wait to read Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto and Hikaru No Go. (If you say its the same as Spongebob and Barbie, you are sadly mistaken.) Heck, we even learned our first Japanese words through those books!!!!!
And I think a lot of you are underestimating the writing ability of some 4th graders.
Scholastic Books has certainly dumbed down and commercialized their offerings. The sad thing is there is *so* much good children's literature out there (not Twilight, no) that they could be offering kids.
This is kind of dumb ... when I was in elementary school, I loved the Scholastic books that had related toys and neat things packaged in with them. So did most of my classmates; the bracelet-making books, with all the cool supplies packaged in, were the most popular. If Scholastic books needed to change, I would say they should offer less TV show-related stuff, like novelizations of Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers stuff.
I agree with what they're saying, but why is Ms. Neary pushing her ideas on these young kids and forcing them to write letters. I might like a whoopee cushion prank book, thank you very much. And this can be worse. I heard of a teacher who forced all her students to write hate-mail to Judy Blume. (One kid even called her "Jew-Dy Blume.)
these kids can barely read the paper that theyre reciting in this video and you expect me to believe that they know what half of these words that their teacher is putting into their mouths.
What's with these 4th graders having the vocabulary of high school students? This is enough to set off my bullshit detector. Obviously the teacher or someone else wrote these letters. There is no way FOURTH GRADERS could or would care about this shit.
Also to add onto this comment, what the fuck do these people expect fourth graders to read? Twilight? Give me a break. Let these kids act their age and not like some stupid personal robot for ignorant/disgruntled parents who have no idea what being a kid means.
seriously? a bunch of fourth graders are able to write a letter of this caliber ~ not to underestimate the youth nowadays but come on , they're just kids who want to have fun ~ Mrs.Neery sounds like shes just pushing it with the quotes , if she really has a problem with the book fair then take it upon herself to stop them , instead of manipulating kids to do her will...
You're kidding me, right? When the book fair came to my school, it was AWESOME to get books AND other things like posters, toys, video games, ect. Mrs. Neery sounds like a bitch who's pushing her views on impressionable young minds. Way to go.
I call BS here, sounds like a teacher pushing off her agenda on to the kids. When I was in 4th grade, I bought the books that came with the pencils or toys alot of the time.
Shameless manipulation of children to put forth some idiot's misguided agenda against Scholastic, masquerading as "pro-kid", what utter BS, and quite despicable.
Mrs. Neary sounds like a pretentious B****! Do you think ANYONE would believe that children wrote any of these quotes, nevermind agreed with them. The book fairs are amazing literacy events that creat an atmosphere of excitement and encourage kids (even ones that don't like books) to get excited about books. This video is a joke and anyone associated with using children to push there own agenda should be ashamed of themselves!
i meen this girl was like y do u sell gameboy games? that is because it is edgucational games!! they only have a couple of toys theres like 98% of books! the rest is erasers, pens and some toys!!
this otherkid was like why do u sell harry potter books on a grade 2 thing? that is because some ppl can read it! and there is no age or grade in it!!!!
Looking at the formation of your opinion, I can see you come from a generation that has had these forms of book fairs in grade school. The books they're selling kids today are no where near the caliber of imagination and level of literacy demanded by kids only 10 years ago. Kids now are a television generation and scholastic is trying to run with that, but they really do need something that wasn't inspired by cable for christ's sake. Have you ever read "Where the wild things are"? It's awesome!
i think it's all a test to see if you will make the "right choice." Lets say your mom gives you 20$ to buy anyyything at the book fair. you can buy 1 game 3 or 4 books. it's okay to get 1 toy but you should definetly get a book.
I think the parents should be more concerned with the fact that Mrs. Neery is spending this much time and effort doing a ridiculous video and spoonfeeding comments to her kids. If your kids don't want to shop at the BookFair--take them on a field trip to a book store-which, by the way sells toys as well. Scholastic makes it possible for me to buy books for my class at affordable prices. I love Scholastic-Bookfairs and Club ordering!
Oh please! All these kids would not ever say this. This was posted by jealous competitors. Scholastic book fairs has all kinds of quality books. Everything at my schools Scholastic book fair has a book to read and I encourage fun. Whatever gets kids to read and does not harm them is great. Scholastic is invited into schools and is most kids only access to quality books. Read to and with your kids and don't worry about the other stuff. Parents need to monitor what their kids buy anyway.
I envy those kids.
realitymainperson 1 month ago
@bozzutoman That's exactly what a teacher is, and they're teaching the right thing, to care about being manipulated.
OneFreakinRock 1 month ago
@bozzutoman They might actually have enough sense in them to think for themselves and genuinely care about books.
OneFreakinRock 1 month ago
@kittysuperstar11 Anything cool? You're missing the point.
OneFreakinRock 1 month ago
@witato1 Why the hell do you think? Scholastic has been commercializing their book fairs by adding toys to get the children to buy more stuff, it ruins the spirit of a book fair and clearly they aren't happy about it.
OneFreakinRock 1 month ago
so why are they writing this to scholastic
witato1 3 months ago
ok seriously i fuckin HATE scholastic i pre-ordere the son of neptune back in july i know it doesent get shipped till it comes out but i shouldv gotten it by now and my mom called but the bitchy lady said it hadwnt been shipped yet and those kids im mean a good moral lterature and they put those things with the prodects to make them more apealing they also sell other stuff but at my school we have to buy two books before we can get anything cool
kittysuperstar11 4 months ago
This is staged BS... kids wouldn't give a shit about toys at a book fair unless an opinionated adult coached them.
bozzutoman 11 months ago
I am sorry but there is no way that those kids had those thoughts on their own. "Good literature", "colossal", "My teacher says". These kids are being told what to say. Shame on the teacher for leading these kids thoughs. You can tell that they are copying pre-written letters. I agree that Scholastic has alot of junk but they also have alot of good books. What do they want in the bookfair? Pride and prejudice or Jane Eyre? Come on! Give me a break.
poppyyukia 1 year ago
I like the song.
LinksPartner 1 year ago
there trying to get some damnn money idiots
oliirules 1 year ago
I would like to say to some of the people that were very rude with their comments earlier that i was a student that was in this class 4 years ago. I am now graduating with high honors. At the end of that 4th grade year our teacher took us to the book fair, but all we saw was a bunch of junk toys. We then decided to write letters to Scholastic hoping that they would send educational books for our school to read. The next year Scholastic had read our letters and sent our school educational books:)
jortzambault 1 year ago 2
@jortzambault
All I can say is good on you all. Keep up that kind of attitude. You can make a difference!
SilentKhayos 1 year ago
To all those people who posted rude comments: These kids will go more places and succeed better in their life because they are concerned about their education. They don't want to settle for mediocre -- GOOD FOR THEM! They want to strive for the best and because of that, they will do well.
Pigeonflier 1 year ago 7
Haha thoose r all 8 th graders now And they all still look the same and tht is bout queer shit I go 2 tht skwl and we havmlike no books at r book fair it's just like 2 year old pussy stuff
iscorechicks 1 year ago
i am one of the kids in this video and mostly all of the comments are rude we did this video on things that we thought about scolastic and how much of a rip of they can be you dont sell games and posters at a "Book Fair " i mean look at the title book fair its not a toy fair or a poster fair if it was thats what it would be called we were just trying to get a point across so we dont need the negitivity !
zebrasprinkels 1 year ago
@zebrasprinkels — "i mean look at the title book fair its not a toy fair,,,"
And if they had books available, then they fulfilled that task. The rest is add-on cross-selling...
It's a damn pity that Miss Neary squandered the opportunity to teach you about marketing and business economics that day... rather than shamefully manipulating kids into protesting for her causes.
bozzutoman 11 months ago
all this video showed was kids complaining about the books they have in their book fair at least be grateful for what you have cuz their are a lot of kids out there that don't get to have one book and the money goes to your school also their at a young age let them have fun so just shut up and stop bitching!!
animefangirl331 2 years ago
Wth? Why are these crazy children saying Schoolastic is bad for it? I BET THAT BOY BOUGHT THAT BRATZ BOOK! So you children need to SHUT UP!
MsKaylaSweet9 2 years ago
lol my school book fair was awesome ends tomorrow D: AND I BOUGHT ALOT i bought diary wimpykid rodrick rules CPpenguin Comics volume 1 Suit life zack and cody side by side and amelia rules I guess ill let my sis read that but the comics are so funny lol and im 9 years old this is really my uncles youtube account Ok bYe
123doy 2 years ago
BACKGROUND:
I made the video Dear Scholastic Books as part of a Media Literacy, artist-in-residence. We filmed over ten videos that week on tobacco, alcohol, product placement, advertising etc.
This teacher had just completed the project.
I decided to simply use all of the students language verbatim from their letters. The filming took 45 min. At the Scholastic Book Sale I filmed all the bubble gum, tie-ins to films and TV shows, whoopee cushions, Bratz dolls etc. JV
memefilms 2 years ago
To be fair, these things are used as fund raisers, not a place to stock your library. We participate every year because it's a way for the school to raise money as well as a chance for my kids to buy some stuff they normally wouldn't be able to. Here's a thought: If you don't like it, don't participate. Instead, go to a book store and buy books for your kids. Instead of bitching about Scholastic, why aren't you bitching about the waste of federal money in education? All these taxes...
F16462 2 years ago
What do taxes going to education have to do with Scholastic corrupting the notion of reading? In fact, if more of our taxes went to the schools they wouldnt be so dependent on fundraisers such as this. Instead of bitching about funding our schools why don't you bitch about corporate welfare and the over-inflated military budget?
Yousmanphd 2 years ago
By the way, my comment was a response to F16462 not to this video.
Yousmanphd 2 years ago
I have an idea. Let's just burn everything that you don't agree with.
orbbafsinned 2 years ago
I have an idea, orbbafsinned. Let's exercise our 1st amendment rights and complain about whatever we'd like to. Got something against freedom?
sgtsal 2 years ago 2
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janeway1997 2 years ago
This video, if these kids actually feel this way, gives me hope for humanity.
coolgamer1677 2 years ago 8
Trust me when I say that these kids are mostly hopeless.
Altair0999 1 year ago
Scholastic has lost their ways.... this is very sad. One of the thousand reasons our daughter won't be at a public school.
KnightsOTPhoenix 2 years ago
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I Both agree and disagree. Most of the kids sound like they WERE fed their opinions, but I don't think that because of their vocabulary. I had a great word library myself. Most of the kids love the toys, I know I did, HOWEVER, aside from toys, I wanted to get into a book--and sadly scholastic lately has been force feeding kids Miley Cyrus and the like. I wanted to read an actual book...And if my book fairs were like theirs is now, I would be bored and would have hated the things. That's just sad
GrumpyOptimist 2 years ago 3
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GrumpyOptimist 2 years ago
I loved these Fairs as a kid, but it was the erasers and posters that I was excited about.
I was reading at a 5th grade level in the 1st grade, so I was a reader.
Here I am at age 31 jonesing for fuzzy headed pencils and kitten posters.
Heaven help me!
gregoramao 2 years ago
Mrs. Neery is teaching the 4th grade because older children can make up their own minds. Maybe we should just get all of the media material that we don't agree with and burn it. Let's just burn all books. Really, grow up jrg1971jrg. Tell your true reason for this video post instead of hiding behind children and possibly turning them away from books forever.
orbbafsinned 2 years ago
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Also the school has the option of what they put out for the fair. If there is an issue with any product, they don't have to put it out. Mrs Neery just want's to make a profit and then complain about what she sold to these children.
orbbafsinned 2 years ago
They do have a choice, but it's very limited. The Scholastic book fair works as an order program with the catalogs received prior to the fair acting as a showcase of goods that will be included. While the schools have some decision over what goes into the book fair, most of the products 'geared towards kids' include a *learning tool* that is made to get them excited about reading. Unfortunately, these are toys, and the catalog is FULL of them. Not much choice exists...
sscreamingeagle 2 years ago
What 4th grader uses "irritated" and gets pissed at scholastic like this?
reap00004 2 years ago
It is fairly obvious the teacher has forced the students to write these letters and has given them talking points to go by. How many different times did I hear the words "bubblegum books", "appalled", and "irritated"?
This is a perfect example of what is wrong in today's educational system. Instead of the kids learning about a situation and forming their own opinion, they are force-fed the belief of the teacher. This creates a generation of kids always looking to others for their opinion.
lralou8 2 years ago
I miss the order forms!!! To me, if you ordered from a form, it was less expensive and your anticipation builded up for the book. I remember getting my first copy of Shonen Jump with my new friend. We were so excited we tore off the plastic wrapping in a heartbeat. We couldn't wait to read Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto and Hikaru No Go. (If you say its the same as Spongebob and Barbie, you are sadly mistaken.) Heck, we even learned our first Japanese words through those books!!!!!
MewHinata 2 years ago 3
Good for them.
And I think a lot of you are underestimating the writing ability of some 4th graders.
Scholastic Books has certainly dumbed down and commercialized their offerings. The sad thing is there is *so* much good children's literature out there (not Twilight, no) that they could be offering kids.
citydog 2 years ago
What these kids are writing obviously isn't their own opinion.
dirtydeedz161 2 years ago
This is kind of dumb ... when I was in elementary school, I loved the Scholastic books that had related toys and neat things packaged in with them. So did most of my classmates; the bracelet-making books, with all the cool supplies packaged in, were the most popular. If Scholastic books needed to change, I would say they should offer less TV show-related stuff, like novelizations of Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers stuff.
AsakiSun 2 years ago
I agree with what they're saying, but why is Ms. Neary pushing her ideas on these young kids and forcing them to write letters. I might like a whoopee cushion prank book, thank you very much. And this can be worse. I heard of a teacher who forced all her students to write hate-mail to Judy Blume. (One kid even called her "Jew-Dy Blume.)
CrazyCheeseMagee 2 years ago 2
these kids can barely read the paper that theyre reciting in this video and you expect me to believe that they know what half of these words that their teacher is putting into their mouths.
ravenclaw34 2 years ago
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While this is probably fake, you would be surprised what 4th graders can do. =)
LinksPartner 2 years ago
What's with these 4th graders having the vocabulary of high school students? This is enough to set off my bullshit detector. Obviously the teacher or someone else wrote these letters. There is no way FOURTH GRADERS could or would care about this shit.
Elcamo1232 2 years ago 3
Also to add onto this comment, what the fuck do these people expect fourth graders to read? Twilight? Give me a break. Let these kids act their age and not like some stupid personal robot for ignorant/disgruntled parents who have no idea what being a kid means.
Elcamo1232 2 years ago
2:24 that's one smart kid
chykinx5000 2 years ago 2
Pretty BS to me, I always looked for the games
ff7redxiii 2 years ago
seriously? a bunch of fourth graders are able to write a letter of this caliber ~ not to underestimate the youth nowadays but come on , they're just kids who want to have fun ~ Mrs.Neery sounds like shes just pushing it with the quotes , if she really has a problem with the book fair then take it upon herself to stop them , instead of manipulating kids to do her will...
Newgroundian 2 years ago
You're kidding me, right? When the book fair came to my school, it was AWESOME to get books AND other things like posters, toys, video games, ect. Mrs. Neery sounds like a bitch who's pushing her views on impressionable young minds. Way to go.
Fail.
vulcangrl13 2 years ago
I call BS here, sounds like a teacher pushing off her agenda on to the kids. When I was in 4th grade, I bought the books that came with the pencils or toys alot of the time.
They put what sells into the order forms.
gomebike 2 years ago
Shameless manipulation of children to put forth some idiot's misguided agenda against Scholastic, masquerading as "pro-kid", what utter BS, and quite despicable.
ruttrho 3 years ago
Mrs. Neary sounds like a pretentious B****! Do you think ANYONE would believe that children wrote any of these quotes, nevermind agreed with them. The book fairs are amazing literacy events that creat an atmosphere of excitement and encourage kids (even ones that don't like books) to get excited about books. This video is a joke and anyone associated with using children to push there own agenda should be ashamed of themselves!
betsyjgousfbulls 3 years ago
ok i TOTALLY disagree
i meen this girl was like y do u sell gameboy games? that is because it is edgucational games!! they only have a couple of toys theres like 98% of books! the rest is erasers, pens and some toys!!
this otherkid was like why do u sell harry potter books on a grade 2 thing? that is because some ppl can read it! and there is no age or grade in it!!!!
sweetXcandyX 3 years ago
Looking at the formation of your opinion, I can see you come from a generation that has had these forms of book fairs in grade school. The books they're selling kids today are no where near the caliber of imagination and level of literacy demanded by kids only 10 years ago. Kids now are a television generation and scholastic is trying to run with that, but they really do need something that wasn't inspired by cable for christ's sake. Have you ever read "Where the wild things are"? It's awesome!
PoiMaverick 2 years ago 3
i think it's all a test to see if you will make the "right choice." Lets say your mom gives you 20$ to buy anyyything at the book fair. you can buy 1 game 3 or 4 books. it's okay to get 1 toy but you should definetly get a book.
nbastar10 3 years ago
I think the parents should be more concerned with the fact that Mrs. Neery is spending this much time and effort doing a ridiculous video and spoonfeeding comments to her kids. If your kids don't want to shop at the BookFair--take them on a field trip to a book store-which, by the way sells toys as well. Scholastic makes it possible for me to buy books for my class at affordable prices. I love Scholastic-Bookfairs and Club ordering!
kathleenemmerick 3 years ago 2
i like Scholastic books
kekoaluvr 3 years ago 2
Oh please! All these kids would not ever say this. This was posted by jealous competitors. Scholastic book fairs has all kinds of quality books. Everything at my schools Scholastic book fair has a book to read and I encourage fun. Whatever gets kids to read and does not harm them is great. Scholastic is invited into schools and is most kids only access to quality books. Read to and with your kids and don't worry about the other stuff. Parents need to monitor what their kids buy anyway.
ECB323 4 years ago