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

Scholastic was how I got my manga in elementary school. They carried a few series that were actually of meaningful quality.