If you haven't heard of "Book it," it's a reading incentive program sponsored by Pizza Hut. My daughters participated in it when they were in elementary school and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Now, we have some self-appointed education commissar, a Harvard psychologist, Susan Linn saying that it "epitomizes everything that's wrong with corporate-sponsored programs in school. In the name of education, it promotes junk food consumption to a captive audience ... and undermines parents by positioning family visits to Pizza Hut as an integral component of raising literate children."
What a load of malarkey. Eating an individual personal pan pizza, one of the rewards for completing books, is not going to destroy the free world. My older daughter loved to get a pizza with anchovies which absolutely floored the waitresses. Neither she nor her family were held captive by this program and neither my wife nor I felt undermined as parental units (thank you, coneheads). Despite this corporate conspiracy by Pizza Hut, my children are both avid readers and physically fit.
People like Linn are a threat to the very joy of life and those moments of wild abandon when we consume mass quantities (thanks again, coneheads) of pizza, ice cream and the like. Yes, moderation in all things...including moderation.
Thank you, Pizza Hut, for making my childrens' education a little more fun for our family and someone send Susan Linn a meatlover's special. She needs it!
Hat tip CNN.
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