It disappoints me to NO END that Scholastic would put out a 'vocabulary building' book about the human body designed for young students, and make this beauuuuuuutiful diagram labeling all the bones inside a human body....
... and call it 'the fibia'.
There is no such bone as the 'fibia'. There's a Tibia, the big bone in your lower leg, and then its counterpart, the FIBULA, but the fibia is not real. Rhymes really nicely with tibia, and would be a nice hybrid of 'tibia + fibula = fibia', but wrong is still wrong.
And there are less-educated teachers out there who didn't have AP Bio and 3 amazing bio teachers in their career to teach them fact. And these same people are going to go out and buy the book I just spent my money on, not make the correction, and teach class after class of students misinformation. Why this is such a big deal to me I can't fully vocalize, but I am saddened by this. To the point I may actually call or write Scholastic and ask them to fix this.
I'm looking at my order form, and there's a little sticker that comes and says '60 years of trust'. Up until this point, I did; I trusted them to publish correct information. Maybe I'll just keep buying their fiction books since who cares if fiction is published correctly...but I LOVE non-fiction books, and I want to build a giant non-fic library for my students to enjoy. I konw the company is amazing, and maybe this is the first mistake they've ever made ever....but considering we live in an age where according to a commercial, '1 in 4 women willl misread a traditional pregnancy test'...how many 2nd graders are going to learn from their 'educated' teacher that they can fall from a height and break their skinny fibia bones?
(Is this just the epitome of my dorkdom, or am I slightly justified in being upset a non-fiction book was not proofread?)
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