the CHALLENGER explosion!

One day, the LaRose family visited Matt at his place of employment, Becker's teaching supply store.

He was tickled pink to see us.

Then, while browsing through the book selection, we stumbled upon this.

As my recently dearly departed* friend Monica would say, WTF?
(*on a mission to Guatemala, not dead)

Child, today we're gonna learn about the Challenger Explosion! A lot of people died! It was really tragic and  scary! But exciting! And through it all the noble astronauts kept positive attitudes. Inspiring lessons for us all.  And since it happened in the 80's, a long time ago, it’s not tactless at all.

Mmm, chocolate pudding.