home4school Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Is it just me? I was looking thru sample chapters of levels 1 and 2 and while I don't know what the words on the pages say, the drawings just look trashy to me.:001_huh: I was getting ready to order, but now I just don't know. I don't want it if the whole book if filled with busty women in skimpy clothes with guys licking their lips at them. What say the hive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I'm drawing a blank on that abbreviation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saja1029 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I'm drawing a blank on that abbreviation... Me too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
home4school Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 So You Really Want to Learn Spanish from Galore Park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Maybe it doesn't stand for "Spanish?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 So You Really Want To Learn Spanish from Galore Park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Maybe it doesn't stand for "Spanish?" :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 We're going to use Galore Park's SYRWTL Junior English this year, and while I love the content, I strongly dislike the illustrations. There's nothing "trashy" about them, but there's just a consistent goofiness that I don't find appropriate for textbooks. Maybe it's a cultural thing? I'm used to American texts with inferior content but illustrated with dignity. We'll keep our low test scores if we can take ourselves seriously! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 We're going to use Galore Park's SYRWTL Junior English this year, and while I love the content, I strongly dislike the illustrations. There's nothing "trashy" about them, but there's just a consistent goofiness that I don't find appropriate for textbooks. Maybe it's a cultural thing? I'm used to American texts with inferior content but illustrated with dignity. We'll keep our low test scores if we can take ourselves seriously! :D :lol: That is so funny!~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 So You Really Want To Learn Spanish from Galore Park. I thought it was So You Really Want To Learn Science from Galore Park, because I remember one odd illustration in the sample for the Level One science text of a (very) black girl with a huge Afro, big red lips, big hoop earrings, pink bell bottoms, and huge pink platform shoes. She looks like she's escaped from a 1970s era "Blaxpotation" film. And I dunno if this image is just a matter of "diversity" or if it is veering into the territory of stereotyped racial lampoon, but I lean toward the latter. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I thought it was So You Really Want To Learn Science from Galore Park, because I remember one odd illustration in the sample for the Level One science text of a (very) black girl with a huge Afro, big red lips, big hoop earrings, pink bell bottoms, and huge pink platform shoes. She looks like she's escaped from a 1970s era "Blaxpotation" film. And I dunno if this image is just a matter of "diversity" or if it is veering into the territory of stereotyped racial lampoon, but I lean toward the latter. Bill Not on topic, but I was just having a conversation with someone last week about how so many people we know actually fit the sterotypes so fully in how they look, dress and speak, yet get so mad when someone refers to them stereotypically. Another conversation altogether, I'm sure, just remembered it from your post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I agree! The "illustrations" look suspiciously like the crude clipart from the early 1990s - the ones that came bundled with your Microsoft. Anyone remember those? I gotta have pretty pictures!! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I thought it was So You Really Want To Learn Science from Galore Park, because I remember one odd illustration in the sample for the Level One science text of a (very) black girl with a huge Afro, big red lips, big hoop earrings, pink bell bottoms, and huge pink platform shoes. She looks like she's escaped from a 1970s era "Blaxpotation" film. And I dunno if this image is just a matter of "diversity" or if it is veering into the territory of stereotyped racial lampoon, but I lean toward the latter. Bill Nah, it was just a nod to Scary Spice. Not saying that's a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Nah, it was just a nod to Scary Spice. Not saying that's a good thing. Aren't those the Royal bridesmaids? ;) :D Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I thought it was So You Really Want To Learn Science from Galore Park, because I remember one odd illustration in the sample for the Level One science text of a (very) black girl with a huge Afro, big red lips, big hoop earrings, pink bell bottoms, and huge pink platform shoes. She looks like she's escaped from a 1970s era "Blaxpotation" film. And I dunno if this image is just a matter of "diversity" or if it is veering into the territory of stereotyped racial lampoon, but I lean toward the latter. Bill !!!! I never saw this, so I went to look this up, and this ain't a Spice Girl. I'm with Bill on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekmom Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I thought the same thing about Latin Prep (also Galore Park). -The pictures were a little too immodest/suggestive for me (especially since my 12 year old son was going to be using it)! - I ended up selling it before he even saw it. -Looking back, maybe that was a mistake- Latin might have been his favorite subject! :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kchara Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I went and looked up the samples, and, yes, I think they're trashy, too. You can be socially diverse without NEARLY so much cleavage. It's not something I'd use for mine, simply because of the illustrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 !!!! I never saw this, so I went to look this up, and this ain't a Spice Girl. I'm with Bill on this one. I found the picture purposefully dramatic and overdone to the point of silly....kids like silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calandalsmom Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I am no prude but I did comment elsewhere when I saw the illustrations in Galore Park that they'd never be used in the US. I don't think Id avoid GP bc of them but they are eyebrow raising. IIRC one of the Latin ones had a guy with a (beer?) bottle in hand chatting up a skimpily dressed girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schastain Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 I had to go check it out...I agree with trashy. In the illustration I saw, the lady is in a skin tight revealing blue dress with guy checking her out and it looks like their are holding beer bottles...odd! Not sure I would go this route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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