For those who don't know what it was, the Pokemon Learning League was a website set up by
Pokemon USA back in the fall of 2006. The main point of the website was to teach grade schoolers
lessons in the four main subjects: math, science, language arts and life skills. This website did a great
job at doing what it was meant to do. When it first began, it was free to use, but in January of 2007,
it could only be accessed through a paid subscription. But paying for that subscription would be
worth it, because during the time it was up, it did very well. It had a lot of subscribers to it. It went
on to win five awards for its lessons and its layout. However, things would start drawing to a close.
On August 1, 2008, the website stopped taking new subscribers and would only support their current
ones. Later on, Pokemon USahad announced that after their current subscriptions expired, the
website would go offline, and a year later, it did. No one knows why it went offline, but I remember
emailing them asking why they were doing it, and they said that it was going offline because they
wanted to focus more on the main anime, and that the website was taking too much of that focus
away. When the website was up, I had a subscription to it and it was really good. I learned a lot of
things that I didn't know before hand.
After it went offline, I tried to convice Pokemon USA to change their minds and put it back online,
but it didn't do any good. Then, a few months later, I started thinking about adapting the entire
website into a spin-off television show, but I thought to myself, "Nah, that can't be done. It would
need the right kind of people to pull it off."
If you want to know more about it, then go to the link provided below.
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_Learning_League
If you were a subscriber to the website and want it back up, then click on the link below.
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/34530/signatures.html
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