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Schools Unleash 'Eco-Kids' to Badger Their Parents
Pajamas Media ^ | December 19 | Frank Furedi

Posted on 12/19/2008 7:02:23 PM PST by AJKauf

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1 posted on 12/19/2008 7:02:23 PM PST by AJKauf
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Badger?


2 posted on 12/19/2008 7:04:47 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: AJKauf

It appears as though these “evironmental educators” could be setting these children up for some child “abuse.” When I was a kid, we went to school to learn, not to be brainwashed by Communists and Marxists.


3 posted on 12/19/2008 7:08:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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4 posted on 12/19/2008 7:08:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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...educators want children to "nag, pester, bug, and torment" their elders into...

Gosh, didn't we have some folks who tried that back in the 20th century? And those cases turned out so well for all concerned...

5 posted on 12/19/2008 7:08:37 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: LukeL

Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!


6 posted on 12/19/2008 7:10:32 PM PST by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: AJKauf

“...educators have also embraced the idea that through influencing children they can reeducate parents.”

The Khmer Rouge embraced the exact same idea in Cambodia...


7 posted on 12/19/2008 7:12:55 PM PST by DemforBush (Millions of conservatives have got your back, Sarah!)
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To: AJKauf

...or “Lefty comes around, full-circle.” Fine. ...one polluting car, one polluting house (with heat, lights,...) per whole, real family. Remember: divorcing/cohabiting hoes pollute twice as much!


8 posted on 12/19/2008 7:13:53 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: AJKauf

“TIMEOUT! GO TO YOUR ROOM!” (That settles that)


9 posted on 12/19/2008 7:14:21 PM PST by LiberConservative ("No. I'm sorry. I still can't see upstate from my house")
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Hitler's Gore's Youth
10 posted on 12/19/2008 7:18:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: metmom

You may want this for your ping list.


11 posted on 12/19/2008 7:21:03 PM PST by AngieGal
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To: AJKauf

Kids can’t add, subtract or multiply … but they can recite Algores global warming crap verbatim.


12 posted on 12/19/2008 7:24:38 PM PST by doc1019
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Is there an 800 number kids can call and turn in their parents and other adults for not being green enough?


13 posted on 12/19/2008 7:27:25 PM PST by teacherwoes (To a liberal diversity is finding different people who agree with them)
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Russell calls on children to “channel their pester power and issue fines against their parents and other transgressors.”

Good way for a kid to get a fresh rosy glow on their "cheeks."

14 posted on 12/19/2008 7:28:58 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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This might work for a doofus who voted for Obama, for the rest it might be the last straw which would lead them to try home schooling (in which the parent is a parent/teacher and the child is a child/student.)
15 posted on 12/19/2008 7:29:06 PM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: DaveLoneRanger; 2Jedismom; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; Anima Mundi; Antoninus; arbooz; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
16 posted on 12/19/2008 7:29:40 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Sure kid.

But you have to lead by example.

So we will sell your video games and toys, you can start walking if you want to go some place, we will close your room to save energy. We will get down the coffee mill so you can grind coffee for your dad and me in the morning.

Here are some seeds so you can plant a garden. And say hello to Ms Needle and Mr Thread. You can start recycling your clothes.

17 posted on 12/19/2008 7:32:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages. I consider myself a bit of a purist, and proud of it.)
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To: teacherwoes

If there isn’t one now, There will be one established soon.


18 posted on 12/19/2008 7:36:44 PM PST by sport
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My daughters have a greenie teacher in their private Christian school. My once envioronmentally friendly daughter is totally turned off the whole environmental movement.

She says that her friends get mad at her for taking bottled water to school and not drinking every last bit of water.

The teacher wants to compost everything. They had a field trip to a dirty, smelly recycling plant (I went and thought it was interesting).

I think my daughter doesn’t like the pressure that the teacher and the kids put on everyone to “save the planet”.


19 posted on 12/19/2008 7:36:53 PM PST by luckystarmom
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Wow, I like your answers to this conflict. They would be mine also if I had children still living at home. If my grandchildren mention these green ideas, I’ll tell my children your ideas. : )


20 posted on 12/19/2008 7:39:15 PM PST by mia
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