Reading Rainbow, the PBS television series and first thing children of the ’80s think of when they hear “LeVar Burton,” airs for the last time Read the full post.
Aug 28
2009
11:54 AM ET
'Reading Rainbow': We won't be seeing you later
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Today, educational funding favors programs that teach kids how to read, rather than why to read.
Great day in the morning, those new opening credits are just horrible. Horrible.
sad that it’s ending
at least there’s discovery kids for those kids who have cable! i was a regular viewer of wishbone and reading rainbow. both shows are great to teach kids about books and how reading can be fun. levar burton is a great host! does this mean that there won’t be anymore reruns either? that’s too bad. like i said, at least the kids still have discovery kids and of course, arthur!!
I watched Reading Rainbow with my kids, and sometimes without them. Farewell, RR and Levar. Hopefully you’ll love on in reruns, like Wishbone (I love that dog!)
It’s terrible that this show won’t be on air anymore. This show and wishbone were staples in my household when I was growing up, I can’t imagine a world without Reading Rainbow, truly a sad day.
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I loved RR. This is sad. We use to actually watch RR in class at school. I guess the teacher did that to get us hyped on reading. With all these new gadgets and crap, kids attention spans are shorter. They would rather play videogames than read. It’s the parents fault. Well, I’m glad I was a kid in the 80′s. We had RR, Thundercats, etc.
It never ceases to amaze me when someone who loathes videogames showcases his/her ignorance with asinine claims, such as this.
Back when I watched Reading Rainbow in elementary school, I played a lot of videogames in between homework and after school karate. Yet I also read a ton of books (almost obsessively so) during this period, I loved PE, and even liked to draw. Perhaps I had problems focusing at times, but to say videogames stifled my development is an insult. If anything, it helped enrich my childhood, alongside books and artistry.
I’m not blind to how addicted some kids can get to videogames, but not all of us are basement dwelling, World of Warcraft playing hermits. They’re the math whizzes, the computer programmers, the graphic/web designers, the engineers, the neurosurgeons, the musicians, and yes, even the BOOKWORMS of today.
We gamers are a lot smarter and more inventive than you realize.
Well, of course when Sina was a kid, the adults were all saying, these darn whippersnappers and their color televisions. Why don’t they go outside? So, the more things change, and all that…
Wow. Reading Rainbow definitely solidified my love of reading. I have so many memories connected to it- that Beauty & the Beast interpretive dance, the TEAMWORK song, the magic one, the one with the different hats, the folk song one with the song ‘Abiyoyo’ or something that my brother & I thought was the funniest thing in the world… I have a lot of great memories from that show.
As an immigrant, I appreciate the effort America as a strong and compassionate nation to donate millions and billions of dollars to help develop third world countries. Now, it is the high time for America to stop cutting educational funds and give its own children a fair chance to grow and save excellent programs like reading rainbow.