Wondering about the recent history of Scholastic, as a history of slop:

* 95% of their books now are total slop

* partnership with Epic means Scholastic coextends into screen time slop

* in the 90s their books were at most semi-slop; something has shifted recently

I turned the saturation down on this photo btw

Philosopher, dad. Formerly Guidepost Montessori. Web3 curious. https://nf.td/matt

JKR signed the first HP book to Scholastic, which was a brilliant move for both of them.

Not so obvious it would be a fit now

The essence of modern parenting is figuring out how to prevent your children from drowning in slop so Scholastic is an interesting case study