Parents question how global warming is taught in schools

[Real World]

This is truly upsetting. This is more proof of how a certain movement dominates public education in this country. Brainwash them while their young I guess.


Global warming discussions in schools

Published: Saturday, March 17, 2007
By Sky Barsch
Free Press Staff Writer

Some parents question how global warming is taught in schools

In Montpelier earlier this year, Bill Burrell's sixth-grade students testified before legislative committees about global warming and what Vermont can do about it. The students also are immersed in conservation and alternative energy projects.

In South Burlington recently, a middle school math teacher used a portion of Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," to illustrate linear equations. An English teacher used the movie to spark opinion writing. Another documentary, "Too Hot Not to Handle," was shown in a science class during a climate and weather unit to help illustrate the effect that human beings have on the environment, Frederick Tuttle Middle School Principal Joe O'Brien said.

In Jericho this week, Jericho Elementary School students put on a play about global warming.

As global warming has shifted from the subject of scientific trade journals and alternative media to the center of the public and political arenas, it also has become a hot topic in public schools. That has some parents questioning what their children are hearing. Parents who disagree with the global warming theory, or who chalk it up to environmental alarmists or political hyperbole, are finding that their points of view aren't given the attention afforded the "other side."

This has educators wondering if global warming is the next intelligent design versus evolution debate.

"That's always a very delicate situation, that we provide a balance," O'Brien said of the global warming discussion. O'Brien was contacted recently by parent Linus Leavens, who was upset that "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Too Hot Not to Handle" were shown to his children.


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[BelichickFan]

Needless to say, the government has no business entering into the world of theoretical hyperbole.

English, Math and proven, factual science is all they should teach IMO.

[patsfan13]

Originally Posted by BelichickFan

Needless to say, the government has no business entering into the world of theoretical hyperbole.

English, Math and proven, factual science is all they should teach IMO.

The job of the NEA is to indoctrinate the next generation of apparatchiks. Parents have no business interfering in the interest of the state and the dems designated unionsin creating the next generation of mindless libs.

[BelichickFan]

Originally Posted by patsfan13

The job of the NEA is to indoctrinate the next generation of apparatchiks. Parents have no business interfering in the interest of the state and the dems designated unionsin creating the next generation of mindless libs.

A couple of years ago my first grader came home telling me we were chopping too many trees down. I told him to forget about it and go and play. If he's worried about trees in first grade they'll get him on Ritalin by 6th grade

[Real World]

Originally Posted by BelichickFan

A couple of years ago my first grader came home telling me we were chopping too many trees down. I told him to forget about it and go and play. If he's worried about trees in first grade they'll get him on Ritalin by 6th grade

6th grade? My GF is a sped teacher, they drug em all up way before that.

[BelichickFan]

Originally Posted by Real World

6th grade? My GF is a sped teacher, they drug em all up way before that.

My kids' 2nd grade teacher said we may want to talk to his Pediatrician about Ritalin . . . that conversation didn't go too far. I actually really liked her as a teacher and plan to request her for my younger son but the idea of pumping mind numbing drugs into a 2nd/3rd grader because he has things on his mind other than listening to a teacher every second is beyond ridiculous.

[Real World]

Originally Posted by BelichickFan

My kids' 2nd grade teacher said we may want to talk to his Pediatrician about Ritalin . . . that conversation didn't go too far. I actually really liked her as a teacher and plan to request her for my younger son but the idea of pumping mind numbing drugs into a 2nd/3rd grader because he has things on his mind other than listening to a teacher every second is beyond ridiculous.

It's disturbing BF. My GF thinks I have ADHD, and in talking to her, I thik that if I were a kid today, I'd be on drugs. Messed up since I think I turned out alright.

[Patters]

RW, You dropped out of the discussion:

Winter has been world's warmest on record

after implying your common sense about past weather is more reliable than the work of thousands of scientists. Now you post this crap? Don't you get it Real World, the humankind affected global warming position is the dominant one, not just among liberals, but among scientists and many other groups as well (including some conservative church groups).

Someone might believe the world is flat or that our landing on the moon was actually filmed in NASA's back yard, but it doesn't mean it should be taught. Thousands of scientists believe that global warming is for real, that humankind is playing an important role in it, and that global warming is potentially very dangerous. That's enough for most people. The only ones who are fighting it are the diehard right-wingers and people like you who obviously think they know better than scientists on how to estimate temperatures and weather patterns of the past. By the way, I gather you haven't even read the Skeptics -- even many of those who oppose the hockey stick graph don't dispute our ability to estimate temperatures from years past. The global warming argument is mostly over; there are some skeptics still hanging around, but that's true of many scientific theories.

[BelichickFan]

Even if Global Warming were true and caused solely by humans, which I'm not stipulating to, btw, but I will for the sake of this thread, it still has no business in schools. Public schools should not be in the business of telling people how they should live their lives. They should teach math, english and proven science. And nothing more.

[QuiGon]

Originally Posted by BelichickFan

Needless to say, the government has no business entering into the world of theoretical hyperbole.

English, Math and proven, factual science is all they should teach IMO.

Unfortunately the schools are spending more time teaching how to worship as a Muslim, and radical homosexual advocacy. Those are also the cornerstones of education. Well, at least it is these days...