Thursday, April 12, 2007

Al Gore, David Suzuki

Intellectual child exploitation, Al Gore, David Suzuki

Is classroom Global Warming preaching indoctrinating the next generation?

Do you know what your children are learning in school about climate change? Have you ever looked at their textbooks? Is it education or indoctrination? How accurate are the facts? How much is it an ideological or a political message? Is it a balanced curriculum offering options or one imposing a singular view? How much is fear the vehicle of indoctrination?

Do you only learn about the material when your elementary school child can't sleep because of threats of a rising sea level? Are you like the mother who told me how children at a birthday party for her seven-year-old cried when a balloon burst because they said there would be another hole in the ozone? I hear from many people about children traumatized by what they have learned in school. A British survey of children between 7 and 11 found half of them are anxious about the impacts of global warming to the point of losing sleep. At what age do we place societal or world problems on young shoulders? US TV celebrity psychologist "Dr. Phil" says emphatically, don't put adult problems on children's shoulders.


That's Dr. Tim Ball, a Canadian writing in today's CFP.  That leftist indoctrination occurs in Canada's, and our schools is hardly revelation, but this is the slug that captured my attention.

Some parents want their children indoctrinated, but often don't know what they are doing. Keith Wiley, father of seven-year old Gillian admits he wrote her entry for David Suzuki's (Canada's Al Gore) contest, "If I were Prime Minister."

Kate Rainforest Action LeagueDr. Ball doesn't mention whether the Keith/Gillian entry won  - with it's plea for the elimination of Carbon Dioxide (and an inhabitable planet), but you see his point.  It seems like the most proactive movement voices are also the most ignorant (Remember Kate from Rainforest Action Network in Penn and Teller's expose?).  I am reminded of the film King of Hearts where asylum patients, freed during wartime, take over the town.  Watching that movie  drove me crazy too.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are being indoctrinated. My advice to all parents if possible get your kids out of public schools and into private.

Anonymous said...

Two thoughts:

What do you expect from the bottom third of our university's graduating classes?

This is why we need superior firepower.

Casca

Anonymous said...

Speaking from experience, every thing Ann Coulter said about Canada, being a haven for Communist and socialist agendas is 100% true, and the perfect example of this is, how much Canadians worship Al Gore and David Suzuki and defend their outrageous hypocrisies with no second thoughts (Or any thoughts at all). I long for the days when Environuts were considered to be fools who smoked too much pot, and weren’t treated as though they were gods.

Anonymous said...

Vouchers
MM

Anonymous said...

MM, my exact thought. Make it an issue, demand them.

Gayle Miller said...

I used to joke that I survived Catholic school. Now I celebrate it! Aside from absolutely CRUISING through my first 2 years of college as a result of the intellectual pounding I endured, the nuns taught us all the basic FACTS - not what they thought those facts meant! Were the nuns mean? Absolutely! Did they sometimes terrify me? You bet! Did I learn? Sometimes against my will, but I did learn.

So I thank my parents who paid taxes for me to attend public school, but loved me enough to pay extra for me to go to Catholic school.

And to Sister Mary Myles HHM, special kudos for taking an intellectually lazy girl who trundled through life on charm and turning her into an intellectually curious woman who will not accept facile answers. You were a major and enduring influence on my life.

Anonymous said...

Home School the kids... course we don't do college at home and the friggin leftards have muddled the brain of the oldest, but she graduates this spring and we'll be rinsing her brain with the good stuff again.

We even have daily "ridicule the leftist morons" time. lol

wmprof

Anonymous said...

The 2 room,2 teacher,1 thru 8 grade school that I earlier said was the finest school I ever saw was called St.Patrick's and of course the two teachers were two nuns.Again as I said earlier,"we need non union,dedicated teachers,who want to teach and not run some GD social experiment"...Unto this day, I still realize what an outstanding job these two terrific women did.They certainly didn't do it by babying people and letting them slide.A lot of the lessons did overlap however,allowing the younger kids to learn older work,to all our benefit.

Anonymous said...

Hey Gayle Miller...You might be 'Cranky' but you sure ain't 'Hankey'......Best Regards.

Gayle Miller said...

jmcd - thankee kindly!

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