  LeVar Burton: ‘We’re sacrificing our kids’  If everyone loved
Reading Rainbow, why in the world was it taken off the air?
Politics, says, host LeVar Burton.  “That’s the story that a lot
of folks don’t get. No Child Left Behind is doing exactly that,
and so the mandate is to teach kids how to read, the rudiments
of reading, and there was no money in the budget to foster a
love of reading,” he said in our Media Beat interview. “Look, we
have spent so much money on the machinery of war in the last 10,
12 years, we are having to make really ridiculous choices. And
we’re sacrificing our kids, literally sacrificing our kids.”
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