> Still, the kids of MSB were decidedly American (as was their school bus) An odd critique to level at an American show made for an American audience. > and M

> Still, the kids of MSB were decidedly American (as was their school bus) An odd critique to level at an American show made for an American audience. > and Ms. Frizzle reinforced dominant images of teaching as a white women’s profession. This reflects that in the 1990s, it wasn't automatically offensive simply to not subvert every single trope, since tropes are just based in reality. Especially since we are talking about a cartoon and not a live action show where casting plays 100% of the role in determining a character's color, someone had to explicitly select skin tones for every character. It was decided to make the skin tone of the teacher the color of 80% of the American population[1] as of the 1990 census. [1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-1/cp-1-1.pdf https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/...