Bill Bigelow
Posted on 05/22/2016 4:25:13 PM PDT by matt04
School officials in Portland, Oregon, have banned books questioning climate change from the classroom.
The city's public school board voted last week that any material saying climate change doesn't exist or that humans are not at fault should be removed.
The resolution also directs school staff to develop an implementation plan for 'curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools.'
The measure was passed even though the Oregon Institute of Science and medicine is circulating a petition which states: 'there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.'
So far it has 32,000 signers, including 9,000 Ph.D.s.
Bill Bigelow, a former Portland public school teacher who worked to present the resolution told the Portland Tribune: 'A lot of the text materials are kind of thick with the language of doubt, and obviously the science says otherwise.
'We don't want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry.'
Bigelow has published a text book called A People's Curriculum for the Earth, and could gain from the new policy.
However he denied that he would profit from the move, insisting that rethinking how children are taught is not a money-maker.
'What we're asking for is not: Buy new stuff,' he added. What we're looking for is a whole different model of curriculum development and distribution.
Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux submitted testimony to the school board saying why the resolution should be passed.
She wrote: 'It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis.
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Climate change is a religion. Agenda 21 is the goal.
Bill Bigelow
So, reporting FACTS in a book (that the climate hasn’t warmed in 20 years) is now banned?
Soon they’ll mandate a ban on books specifying that there are basically two sexes in humans, male and female. Basically. Schools out of control, the admins have lost their minds.
And Trump is a fascist....I’m 37, would someone mind telling me when the world turned upside down?
With things like this easily available on the web, schools are going to have a harder time clamping down on the minds of kids.
And yet ANOTHER “Portlandia” episode writes itself:
When “The Mayor” gets wind of this book banning, he realizes it’s not just heretical climate change books that must be banned, but he needs to ban many other classes of books, in particular any book that’s anti-pickle, anti-milk, anti-bicycle, anti-cute-dog-clothes, anti-soy-latte, anti-Flaming-Lips, anti-hipster, anti ... well you get the picture.
Ping.
(Which kind of parallels my attitude about school prayer. It was a superficially bad thing that teachers couldn’t lead communal prayers. Superficially, because the place faith ought to be coming into the community from, is the home! If faith came into the schools through kids who have actually seen at home what the spirit of Jesus can do, administrators would have an opposite problem — they would not be able to keep prayer out of the schools because of the kids.)
The answer is, look for other ways to engage with the kids, including of course their homes and parents.
The worm must turn, later if not sooner.
Yeah, all non-globalist American patriots are.
....I’m 37, would someone mind telling me when the world turned upside down?
About 1964.
Try a few years earlier, like the Garden of Eden.
G-d forbid they should make money. Their motives are pure: Indoctrinate the children.
Definitely during my lifetime.
Critical thinking double-plus-ungood.
“I’m 37, would someone mind telling me when the world turned upside down?”
When fascists started overusing the word fascist so that they could crush all dissent.
You can bet these same people would criticize the catholic church from doing the same thing in the middle ages.
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