Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/18/2009 11:59:46 AM PDT by crazyhorse691
The textbooks take on global warming are much more grounded in reality than the author of this article. A few mistatements, but far better than what the hysteria that Bill thinks should be in them.
Marxism is our nation's most serious threat. Government K-12 schools are the Marxists’ **most** powerful weapon against the United States.
So....Is reforming the government K-12 schools the answer? NO! NO! NO!
Government K-12 schools must be abolished!
It is impossible to reform socialism. Government schools were a socialist scheme from their beginning in the mid-19th century to produce compliant workers for the fascist state. They are succeeding admirably in that goal.
Conservatives! If you are serious about saving our nation, we **must** set up a system of tuition-free, private, conservative schools, so that every child in this nation can have access to a conservative education. And...We MUST SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT K-12 SCHOOLS. They are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination camps!
Sure,that’s what we need, science texts based on bumper stickers arguments.
Possible climate change? The text is thick with a mealy language of "might," "could" and "may"...What's the beef? It sounds like they're quoting IPCC "science" or algore's bloviating.
Well, could it possibly be because of the massive amounts of scientific global warming hoax evidence?
LOL! I think this is really good news -- I would have expected Portland (and indeed Houghton Mifflin) to be on the cutting edge of political correctness . . . maybe the cutting edge is moving?
News flash to the author -- teachers do not choose el-hi books. Textbooks are selected by the powers that be on the state level; there may be one book or several approved, and school districts have to use approved books. To get on state approval lists is obviously important to educational publishers -- i.e., Houghton Mifflin wouldn't be doing this if there weren't a market in enough states.
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Ah, yes, a social studies teacher knows all about science. NOT! Has he ever had a private sector job, or has he been sucking at the Gubmint teat for 30+ years?
The "environmental science" currently taught in schools is left-wing propaganda.
“We MUST SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT K-12 SCHOOLS. They are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination camps!”
And that’s just a start. What about 95% of the universities, and all “journalism” schools? That’s when the Marxism REALLY gets going!
Couldn’t write the article without a gratuitous slap at Rush Limbaugh? Eff him!
*Andrew Freedman, an environmental journalist and columnist at the Washington Post, believes the American Meteorological Society erred in giving Hansen its 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal: “By citing his ‘clear communication of climate science in the public arena,’ they may have actually sanctioned his political advocacy. Such advocacy... threatens to paint the AMS as having a political agenda too.” Other AMS members have also criticized the award.
*Physicist Freeman Dyson is strongly critical of Hansen's climate-change activism. “The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers... Hansen has turned his science into ideology.”
*After Hansen's arrest in West Virginia, New York Times columnist Andrew Revkin wrote: “Dr. Hansen has pushed far beyond the boundaries of the conventional role of scientists, particularly government scientists, in the environmental policy debate.”
And also because Portland has 11.5% unemployment rate, together with the 12.2% rate.
However, a measure of the green envirowakos success can be seen in the 20% unemployment rate for Orogon loggers.
It’s like they stop pretending to be interested in objectivity. IF you assume global warming should be covered in Portland high schools, one would think the science of the process would be covered in the Earth Science classes.
“Global Students” is the term used today in schools in place of the more old school “history” and “geography” to reflect the fact that we’re now teaching the culture of the region that shaped the history.
From the perspective of teaching students about “global studies” the important point is that there IS debate over global warming. It doesn’t matter who will ultimately proved right. The important point is that the fact of there being a debate shapes the culture and progression of society.
"Barack!"
What about 95% of the universities, and all “journalism” schools? That’s when the Marxism REALLY gets going!
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If our nation’s college and university classrooms were filled to the brim with students who were well prepared to defend their faith and their nation’s founding principles, their Marxist professors would whither before their righteousness. The Marxist professors would be like the Wicked Witch of the West. “Help me! I’m melting!”
While I agree with you that our universities need reform, most of the emphasis should be placed on shutting down the government K-12 Marxist indoctrination camps and opening conservative ( Christian and non-Christian) private schools.
Yes,...Conservatives are fully capable of multi-tasking, and we should not neglect our colleges and universities. We should begin by pushing for privatization of our state colleges and universities. Conservatives should develop organizations that would credential people with rigorous exams so that students could spend the most minimum time necessary in college or on a campus. Students should be permitted to take these exams at any age. ( My own kids started college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13.) This would help reduce the number of people attending college.
Conservatives could also open new conservative colleges.
On the K-12 level:
Conservatives should start education foundations that would award grants to individual conservative teachers. The conservative teachers would open one-room schools, mini-schools, virtual schools, tutoring centers, and homeschool co-ops. All of these would be tuition-free. The foundations would certify the teacher, test the students, and approve the curriculum.
By doing this, conservatives would rob the government schools of the three things they need: students, state money that is attached to these students, and the votes of the parents ( family, friends, and neighbors, as well). The conservative foundations could also organize the parents into highly effective PACs that would work to shut down governemnt K-12 schooling. ( Look at the political effectiveness of homeschoolers.)
The brick and mortar concept should be abandoned. It is expensive, and with today’s technology highly inefficient and archaic. ( Again my homeschooled kids started college at 13, 12, and 13.) Also...Brick and mortar schools resemble prisons. Do conservatives really want students to learn how to be good prisoners of the state? I don’t think so.
Yes, it can be done! If Harvard ( just one college among many) has a 35 BILLION dollar endowment, surely conservatives could save our nation by endowing K-12 education.
Finally, forget churches!
There are too many government teachers, their families, and school vendors sitting in the pews. Few ministers have the testosterone to bite the hand that puts money in a collection plate.
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