Scholastic
Mark Moyer-Regional Vice President
Mmoyer@scholastic.com
Warner Gateway
21860 Burbank Blvd, Suite 110
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Phone: (818) 610-7272
Fax: (818) 610-7474
Mr. Moyer,
It has come to my attention that Scholastic is involved in producing
"study guides" for ABC's upcoming piece of propaganda: Path to 9/11.
As I am sure by this time you are very well aware the film is a
fiction and full of intentional misrepresentations of the recent past.
It is absurd and offensive that Scholastic is involved in any way
with this nonsense.
You should be aware that my child attends school in the Santa
Monica/Malibu Unified School District. I will today be reaching out
to the schools to discover if they will be using your "study guide" to
this piece of propaganda. If I find they are please be assured that I
will from that point forward do everything in my power to stop
Scholastic from ever doing business with SMMUSD again. You can be
confident I will write letters, show up at school board meetings,
discuss this with our entire local school calling tree, and basically
harrass our local administrators until Scholastic is stricken from the
list of approved vendors for the district.
I realize Scholastic may have had the best of intentions and may have
been taken in by the liars behind this film. But there is ample
evidence in the media now as to just how dishonest the film represents
the recent past. Our children deserve better than such a transparent
rewriting of history and the involvement of your firm in this
endeavour. Your firm would be well advised to sever all ties with this
project before the PR disaster coming down the tracks hurts your
bottom line.
Respectfully,
Christopher Filkins
Santa Monica, CA
cc: SMMUSD Board of Education, Superintendent