Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials

Pamplin Media Group ^ | May 19, 2016 | Shasta Kearns Moore

[Twotone]

In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools.

“It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis,” said Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux in board testimony. “Climate education is not a niche or a specialization, it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world.”

[Twotone]

Oregon ping...

[madprof98]

it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world.

Well, that and gender studies.

[DungeonMaster]

Have you ever talked science with a public school science teacher. There are not many Walter Whites out there. Well, maybe on morals but not on science.

[Lazamataz]

The scientific method requires you ban any dissenting voices; that you throw out any experiments that disprove your thesis; and that you persecute, prosecute, jail and kill anyone who speaks out against your premises and conclusions.

[Petrosius]

Ah! The true colors of the "Liberals" comes out. So when is the book burning scheduled to start?

[rktman]

Would that be considered silencing the opposition? Yeah, I’m a DENIER! Wanna step out back? :>)

[henkster]

Last month this student, Gaby Lemeiux, participated in the national We The People competition in Washington D.C. She flew there with her team in an airplane. In her testimony before the School Board, she also disregards everthing about free speech and the value of competing thought enshrined in the Constitution she supposedly learned in the We The People program.

Gaby is another left wing hypocrite in the larval stage.

[Steve_Seattle]

Gaby Lemieux - budding fascist.

[kingu]

Why bother? Al Gore said the tipping point was back in 2015 and if we didn’t take drastic action, we couldn’t stop it.

It’s 2016, since we’ve already passed the scientifically proven tipping point (surely all who agreed with Al Gore still stand by their judgment back then, and of course, ANY dissenting opinion is to be ignored), shouldn’t we rather all move inland so we’re at least 100 feet above sea level?

Shouldn’t we be focusing on evacuating those major cities which are at risk, building new cities inland? Do these proposed text books advocate that? Document the moment we lost the ‘man made climate change fight’?

Or are you a climate change denier and say Al Gore is wrong?

[Feckless]

The NORKS ability to hit WA/OR/CA might not be all “downside”. Just sayin’

[Da Coyote]

So, they will ban statistical analysis, physics, Maxwell’s equations, principal component analysis, etc?

All of which, of course, are complete Greek (yup, pun intended) to those school officials, those with silly little education degrees, and virtually all politicians.

[Unam Sanctam]

Because science has nothing to do with asking questions and probing and testing “consensus”...

[Steve_Seattle]

On all fronts, progressivism is rapidly descending into what in philosophy is called "self-referential absurdity," the undermining of a philosophy by turning its own assumptions against it.

They claim that gender is a social construct, but insist that someone can be an "inner female" despite male biology. But they deny the legitimacy of the distinction between male and female.

They insist that they be protected from ideas and viewpoints that threaten them, but their own ideas threaten others.

They insist on free speech, but define it in ways that suppress the free speech of others.

They oppose racism and sexism, but insist that each race and both sexes have unique, immutable qualities that must be preserved through social engineering. They treat white people as having some sort of "original sin" unique to white people, and forever ineradicable.

They shout "diversity" while trying to stamp out any idea with which they disagree.

They use "climate change" as a slogan, yet act as if climate change can be stopped.

They deny moral absolutes, while treating their own moral postulates as self-evident and unchallengeable moral absolutes.

They oppose "hate," but are themselves haters.

[crusher2013]

Given their lousy technology, maybe it will miss and take out your Double-Wide in your 2 bit town instead.

Just saying.

[ClearBlueSky]

The “guilty human” types in the Northwest had best be concentrating on plugging up their volcanoes instead of stifling schoolkids opinions. Nature will give them some real “climate change” and a “carbon footprint” several feet thick if one or more of their mountains erupts. Maybe they could ‘feed’ the calderas some dedicated Gaia types and REALLY try to control Nature! LOL

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis,” said Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux

This kid has already closed his mind, long before he has the education or knowledge needed to form any intelligent opinion about the issue. He is a devout follower of a belief, and wants to make sure he is not exposed to any data or insight or knowledge that might contradict his faith. And he'd like to make sure his fellow students also are shielded from knowledge that might intrude on reality.

Such close-mindedness and foolishness is perhaps explainable and correctable in a high school kid - though he and anyone who cares about him should be very alarmed that a student is so bent on avoiding new ideas. There is no such excuse for the adults who also insist on closing off their minds and suppressing dissent.

[krug]

As an educator, a teacher of physical science in high school, I always, always, say off the cuff statements such as; “the myth of global warming”, “the scientifically unproven manmade climate change”, etc. Or...whenever we have a very cold day I”ll state how this must be the result of climate change. I will not teach anything related to this unproven yet accepted as fact climate change liberalism, but through my sarcasm, I believe most of my students are being educated that global warming is a hoax.

[landerwy]

Very well said! Thank you!

[super7man]

it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world.

When my daughter was a Junior in HS, she came home one night and just ripped the family about global warming, our carbon footprint, our wasteful food practices, our use of energy and on and on. I asked where she had gotten her information and she said that it was from her history teacher (?).

The next day was a Friday and she was running late as usual, and came to me said we gotta go, I have to go to school. I told her that I had been thinking about what she had said the previous evening and told her that I was going to work from home that day in and effort to reduce our carbon footprint. She said, “But Dad, I have a Bio test today, we have to go.” I told her that saving the planet was more important than her Bio test. She was livid, and called some friends to see if she could get a ride. No luck. She stayed home that Friday.

I suggested she spend the weekend doing some research on global warming and energy use and see if what her teacher seemed right. She did and spent two days writing a paper for her history teacher that debunked human caused global warming. It was not an assignment but she gave it to the teacher anyway. It came back with a note at the top that said “I'll have to think about this.”

I seem to remember that she was able to take her Bio test on Monday, but the perspective and discernment she gained was more valuable than anything.