If you were a child or raised a child anytime during the last 26 years, chances are you remember Reading Rainbow, a PBS show for kids about books. LeVar Burton, its host, led every episode as a reading adventure and ended each one with "But you don't have to take my word for it."
The show ends on Friday, according to NPR, due to lack of funding and a shift in educational priorities -- away from encouraging reading toward the mechanics of reading.
It's another little loss. Our new batch of kids won't know about cobblers, cameras that use film, hand-written lettters, printed newspapers, or Reading Rainbow. At least it's still sunny on Sesame Street.
1 comments:
I think it was last Friday the show went off the air. Though depressing, the fact that the last new episode was filmed three years ago makes this news not entirely unexpected.
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