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In a message dated 2/5/03 12:45:58 PM, ejcrewe@... writes:

<< A couple of days ago someone mentioned being annoyed by Sagwa on PBS. >>

Me.

<< Can I
just say how annoying I find Arthur to be? He's always in fear of being
shamed at school by his friends>>

Sure!

Holly and another homeschooling family of kids (four of them altogether) LOVE
Arthur. They can quote the episodes, they analyze the changes in characters
over the years, they discuss what lines they think might have been out of
character or episodes they thought fell short of their potential. So for
them, they way THEY watch it, it's a good source of lots of information about
interpersonals. And it makes them all glad they're not in school! Some of
them have been in, and they tell Holly which parts of the school aspects they
think are realistic. They mine the heck out of Arthur.

For a while here when the PBS kids' schedule changed it was only going to be
on at 6:30 a.m. and none of them wanted to get up for it. But someone at
KNME figured out this plan was bad, and so it's repeated at 4:30 or 4:00 in
the afternoon and now they're all happy again.

Sandra