Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/27/2008 11:31:46 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
California public students will stick to reading, writing and arithmetic, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger decided as he vetoed a bill late Friday that would have required climate change be added to schools' curriculum.
The measure, sponsored by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, also would have required future science textbooks to include climate change as a subject.
In January, the state Senate approved the bill, SB 908, by a 26-13 vote. Only two Republicans supported the proposal.
In his veto statement, Schwarzenegger said he supported education that spotlights the dangers of climate change. However, the Republican governor said he was opposed to educational mandates from Sacramento.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
DATE: 07/25/2008 To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 908 without my signature. While I am supportive of encouraging "climate change" education curriculum, I have consistently vetoed legislation that has attempted to mandate specific details or events into areas of instruction. The State Board of Education adopted content standards are developed by a diverse group of experts and are intentionally broad in order to allow coverage of various events, developments, and issues. I continue to believe that the State should refrain from being overly prescriptive in specific school curriculum, beyond establishing rigorous academic standards and frameworks. Moreover, in this particular case, the California Integrated Waste Management Board's Office of Education and Environment, in conjunction with the California Environmental Protection Agency is already well into the process of incorporating the "climate change" issue in the creation of an environment-based K-12 model curriculum. For these reasons, I am unable to sign this bill. Sincerely, Arnold Schwarzenegger
So even Arnold “Environmental” S. is against what is already taught in schools? You think that Elementary school students and others were not fed heeping glops of Environmentalism in Science class? Some of the biggest brainwashing was not on education, or on our defense or on religion, but when I was in Elementary School it was about the rainforest.
That was what was important. To keep some public school dream alive that I would become ecologically aware about how awful it is that people are cutting down trees there. They did show us a documentary on trees and wood and made into pencils, but I can recall even then that we were too busy being taught the “Greenhouse Effect”(which is what they called it when I was in school, with no mention about how eeeeevil CO2 is. I always learned that it was a good gas, but I guess that I am wrong to the Gorons) to learn anything else.
I like Arnold S. for doing this, but to act like that is some rampant blow to brainwashing our children, which might be the reaction in some circles, is naive. I was in school in the past 10-15 years and I know what I was taught. Even in Community College in Astronomy we learned all about Global Warming. And in Oceanography we watched a video which remarked about being “good stewards” of the Earth like putting on a light for two hours more than usual will suddenly rot the world’s oceans. According to Obama maybe.
Indeed. And while this veto is welcome, it doesn’t really do much since the teachers unions have much to say about the curriculum and they’re more than happy to indoctrinate children about “climate change” hysteria.
In other words, "we don't need no stinkin' law. We're brainwashing all the kids anyway."...the California Environmental Protection Agency is already well into the process of incorporating the "climate change" issue in the creation of an environment-based K-12 model curriculum.
The people up in Sacramento are fools.
The people of Palo Alto are educated fools.
The people of San Francisco are Perverted fools.
The people of Lost Angeles are racist fools.
The People of San Diego are fools for not seceding from Kalifornia and form a city state on the order of Sparta.
Exactly. Our Government education system is beyond repair. Our government PERIOD is beyond repair.
Thank you for your response. This has indeed been going on for a long time. In the 70s, it was global cooling. Plus we learned all about the “evils” of DDT.
And don’t forget the CFCs that I learned about in Middle School or such. Yep, it seemed like somewhere in Science we had to learn about Chloroflauro Carbons(SP?) and how they were “destroying the environment”. It is funny.
When a beaver builds a dam, it is environmental and natural. But to these nuts when a human builds a dam, it is now an environmental hazard. Somehow, to me, I think that a big subtlety missing in Environmentalism is that they are really Anti-Human. I think that it fits within many of the sculptures of the Left, the same phase of Anti-Humanity. Yet somehow we are the only lifeforms that when we take a crap, we try to find a way to properly dispose of it instead of leaving it on the grass.
I can still hear the Lefty critics snickering about something as “naive” as Alger novels but when it comes to books of doom and gloom and humans acting evil, than it goes to the top of the list. They recite that us Humans have laid waste, rampaged and raped Mother Gaia. That we enslaved hundreds of Africans and laid waste to most Native Americans. And that, somehow, we are still as bad as we were before.
And some wonder why I recite that Lefties putting a lot more faith in human nature than Right-Wingers is a big lie. If Leftism had any compassion or respect for humanity, it wouldn’t turn us all to dirt within verbal diction.
Let me just say that beware being young and Conservative. Beware of the chemicals and the brainwashing. Beware.
Too much wine, too much time.
Now you know why big, world population cleansing wars have always been inevitable throughout history.
We are almost due for another. But it can’t happen until these Marxist idiots gain enough control to cause a world wide economic collapse which will kill half of them by starvation while the other half get killed trying to steal our food.
May as well add flat earth maps to geography books and a moon made of cheese in science books.
Hey! I like cheese. And if the moon were made of cheese, I’d personally contribute to NASA beyond my tax dollars.
I continue to believe that the State should refrain from being overly prescriptive in specific school curriculum, beyond establishing rigorous academic standards and frameworks.
Gov Arnold is right. And in re the above, a ton of taxpayer dollars had to be spent just to put out the fires.
I don’t why I have to un-do the damage that schools do. But I guess it is a useful education in not believing everything the teacher says.
That post reads like you could use some more schoolin’ yourself.
Off to the Re-Education Camp!
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