You are going to crush a whole generation of idiots, you know. I went to my niece’s high school graduation last week, and I was astounded to hear the dean announce that she was so proud of the students as they had learned how to recycle and plant trees. OMG! Four years of private school education and they can plant trees.
Did you tell her parents they wasted their money on useless PC fluff??? Kids can get indoctrination for free in public schools. :-)
Come to my house, I can make kids plant trees and take out the recycling and not charge a dime! :-)
With their newfound knowledge, hopefully your daughter and her class cohort will never suffer the fate of the original inhabitants of the Easter Islands.
It only gets worse though, I was taking a graduate level accountant masters course, and the practice exercises in the book included global warming mumbo jumbo.
I fought for five years, trying to protect an enormous, gorgeous, dense, old-growth forest from the enviro-fascists who slapped me with one mindless regulation--and expense--after another. I made it clear that I wanted to preserve it in its pristine beauty and to protect all the wild animals who lived there. I also told them that if they didn't cooperate with me and stop harassing me, I would have to sell the property, and the buyer would likely destroy the forest for urban development. They didn't care.
Sure enough, they kept it up. A developer offered to buy it at a huge profit to me. The forest is now a desert. The animal habitats have been destroyed. My wife and I were heartbroken. I almost cried.
The enviro-bullies apparantly were pleased. They showed who's boss.
Was I surprised? No. I've understood what Leftists are for years.
Good home page, by the way. I’ve bookmarked the web site with the quotes of Mrs. Bill Clinton.
“OMG! Four years of private school education and they can plant trees.”
What they should have learned was how to prevent the laundering of money by Carbon Offset firms.
I remember going to an information night for Northwestern University (when my eldest was looking at schools with good music programs). The whole emphasis seemed to be on the student being able to "find themselves" during the four years at Northwestern by taking whatever classes they wanted.
My daughter picked this up and said she like the idea of being able to just "find herself". I told her if she was that unsure about what direction she wanted to go; she could "find herself" at a state university.
She ended up going to Indiana University at Bloomington because of the excellent music school they have there. Little did I know that if my great-grandparents had come into the country illegally, she might have been eligible for in-state tuition.
Don't despair! They also learned how to take out the garbage!
The kids at the local public high school don’t seem to have gotten the environmental message; they are incredible litterbugs.
Consider her lucky!! If she spent 4 years in a Public School, she would have nothing to show for it but the ability to place a condom on a cucumber!!
They could do far worse things than plant trees. If there were a choice between the usual curriculum today and planting trees, I would say proceed with the latter.
Not for any feel-good reason, but for sheer experience - hands on - in something other than paper shuffling and word-surfeit(acation.
This could be the veritable high point of their academic investment.
The children might actually have the opportunity to use that ancient tool - the shovel. Might be useful some day....