I Can Never Get Enough Articles Like This

Out in Woodland, California, there's the next generation of comic readers and creators being fostered. According to a January 16 piece in The Daily Democrat:

[Lee Middle School art teacher Juri] Yamashita and her [20+] students meet after school twice a week for an anime and manga graphic novels program. It's a class, not a club, Yamashita said, where students sign in, but do not receive credit or a grade for participation. What they do get, though, is drawing instruction and time to watch anime, loosely defined as Japanese animation or cartoons.

Soon the students will also be able to use class time to read manga as well, the print version that somewhat resembles a comic book. A $500 grant from the Apple Tree Foundation will enable Yamashita to purchase a collection of the books, most of which are published as a series.

I don't have any idea what kind of promotional budgets DC and Marvel are dealing with (nothing substantial, I know). But if I was a mainly superhero comic book publisher trying to make inroads in the ever-growing "teens hungry for manga" market, supplying schools with comp copies of their all ages comics may not be a bad idea. Am I crazy in thinking this way?