Posted on 05/22/2016 4:25:13 PM PDT by matt04
School officials in Portland, Oregon, have banned books questioning climate change from the classroom.
The city's public school board voted last week that any material saying climate change doesn't exist or that humans are not at fault should be removed.
The resolution also directs school staff to develop an implementation plan for 'curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools.'
The measure was passed even though the Oregon Institute of Science and medicine is circulating a petition which states: 'there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.'
So far it has 32,000 signers, including 9,000 Ph.D.s.
Bill Bigelow, a former Portland public school teacher who worked to present the resolution told the Portland Tribune: 'A lot of the text materials are kind of thick with the language of doubt, and obviously the science says otherwise.
'We don't want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry.'
Bigelow has published a text book called A People's Curriculum for the Earth, and could gain from the new policy.
However he denied that he would profit from the move, insisting that rethinking how children are taught is not a money-maker.
'What we're asking for is not: Buy new stuff,' he added. What we're looking for is a whole different model of curriculum development and distribution.
Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux submitted testimony to the school board saying why the resolution should be passed.
She wrote: 'It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis.
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good little Nazi promoting his own book for the schools
Censorship is okay if you’re a liberal.
if that was true then publishers wouldn't be so fast to change the school's curriculum every few years.
We need a petition campaign insisting that those books be burned. I bet we could 10k signatures in a week.
Climate change does exist and always has. They just can’t stand the thought that it is most likely not man caused.
If Portland voters don’t like the board’s decision, but don’t get off of their couches to voice their concern, or possibly fire the board on the next election, then that is the voters’ problem.
Sieg Heil!
You’re a young whipper snapper. Things started changing drastically in the late 60’s. Heck, even the 70’s seem great now compared to the BS we have now. Wish I could go back.
most people with fascist tendencies don’t understand that they have them and view calling some one fascist as a way of getting what they want
WHAT? This is insanity.
During the 60s with the leftist generation burning the colleges and destroying of religion in schools.
Merrium-Webster definition: Full Definition of fascism 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Notice the lack of bias in M-W ...
Such open minded tolerant libtards.
This country needs cwii, badly. Not happy about it but its reality.
Shouldn’t they also be required to ban books that pimp the liberals’ global warming hoax and scam?
It must be getting pretty bad for the envirowackos when their hoax and scam can’t stand up to any scrutiny.
Another good excuse to launder money
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