Hollywood wives... is there anything they DON'T know???There are plenty of organizations at the ready to help you.
TJed.org and homeschoolcentral.com should get you going in the right direction.
A seven year old book on “Global Warming”.
How current and cutting edge.
Isn’t Laurie David a celebrity wife? What better authority could they get to write that BS!
Hollywood wives... is there anything they DON'T know???
Whatever.
I am just livid that my 3rd grade daughter has a choice between a book she already read and this piece of propaganda to read this summer.
I'd be livid that my child wasn't being challenged and that her teachers didn't know or care that she'd read at least one of the books previously. Your daughter isn't an individual in school. She's a number.
I am having her read the book she already read...again.
I'd assign mine a level-appropriate book and wouldn't force her to repeat a book just because people who don't care about her don't have time for her as an individual. Why are you forcing her to repeat work she successfully finished? Would you be happy if that was done to you? Why are you supporting an unfair system?
But I am thinking this requires a letter to the principal.
To what end? They don't care about your child or how she's doing academically. They went out of their way to prove that to you. What are you expecting?
It is just ridiculous that they are pushing this crap on little kids- trying to scare them at such a young age!
Again, they don't care about your child. Why do you act as though this surprises you? Your child is a number, an amount of money, a commodity.
I don't want to get her in trouble, but I would like her to read something countering this crapola instead.
You need to question your ability to parent wisely if you are willing to send your child to a place where she might get in trouble if her parent questions what the school is doing. There is no way they'd have my child if I wasn't sure whether or not my words could get my child in trouble. What sort of punitive, sadistic people run this school, and why are you not sure whether or not they'd take it out on your child?
Our Republican leaders are too gutless to state the obvious on global warming.
(My suggestion - pull her out of public school. Public school = child abuse.)
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What I don’t like is the fear democrats are putting into young children with this global warming bunkum. It’s horrible.
What is interesting is that up to 2007 there was still a nice upward trend in global temperature with only a little lull. Now there has been 7 more year of virtually no temperature rise. So whatever charts they show in the book which are probably circa 2005 will still look sufficiently scary (0.2C or more rise per decade) to be plausible threats. A 2C rise in a century would be not a huge threat (IMO) but not a walk in the park either. But with no subsequent rise after the book is written the climate models are thoroughly invalidated along with the laughable meme that the heat has disappeared into the ocean (the models model the ocean dimwits!). So I would have kids read the book but also explain the facts to them.