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Letters from Sixth Grade Students Reveal Global Warming Indoctrination
AmericanChronicle.com ^ | March 25, 2008 | Maureen Martin

Posted on 03/25/2008 9:42:50 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team

[Note: For more on children being indoctrinated into man-made climate fears see: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=DDDC4451-802A-23AD-4000-A9B55ED9489A ]

6th Grade Class Denounces Global Warming Skeptics as 'Horrible People'

Excerpt: If you doubt teachers across the country are trying to brainwash schoolchildren with global warming alarmism, take a look inside the sixth grade classroom of teacher Michael Steria at David A. Brown Middle School in Wildomar, California. Twenty-five sixth graders teamed up to write eight letters to The Heartland Institute describing what they had been taught about global warming. [..] Global warming "means that if we don´t fix the climate, everything will be destroyed and we won´t be able to survive," two students wrote. Others found their global warming lessons similarly frightening (all transcriptions are as the students wrote and sent them, uncorrected): "I think your fools for denying G.W. you know it could kill us all & you´re just adding to it. I want you to help stop G.W. not increase it." "We are going to tell you about global warming. I don´t care if you don´t want to read, but I´m making you read it you horrible people." "We feel that it is wrong what you are doing. We know that you know that global warming is NOT we repeat NOT a myth, And we think it is selfish that you would take money over yours and your peers lives." […] The students say they read 10 articles about global warming; their letters describe and identify seven of them. Three of the articles have nothing to do with global warming or greenhouse gases. Two are dire predictions from non-scientists at the United Nations disaster relief agency, the U.N. Development Programme, and nongovernmental organizations engaged in disaster aid. One article relates state efforts at monitoring greenhouse gases.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/56321

[Link to pdf of letters here: http://heartland.temp.siteexecutive.com/pdf/22921.pdf & here: http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22921 ]

Letters from Sixth Grade Students Reveal Global Warming Indoctrination March 25, 2008 By: Maureen Martin

Published In: Environment News

The Heartland Institute

www.heartland.org

If you doubt teachers across the country are trying to brainwash schoolchildren with global warming alarmism, take a look inside the sixth grade classroom of teacher Michael Steria at David A. Brown Middle School in Wildomar, California.

Twenty-five sixth graders teamed up to write eight letters to The Heartland Institute describing what they had been taught about global warming. Steria sent the letters to the institute in March.

(The letters themselves are posted here.) [GO TO HEARTLAND.ORG AND CLICK ON TO THIS ARTICLE TO READ THIS LINK] http://heartland.temp.siteexecutive.com/pdf/22921.pdf

The students said they learned about global warming by reading 10 articles about it. None of the articles, however, was about the science of global warming. Many described terrifying consequences that supposedly will result, convincing the students all living things--including all human beings--will be dead in 10 years.

Steria´s Teachings

Global warming "means that if we don´t fix the climate, everything will be destroyed and we won´t be able to survive," two students wrote. Others found their global warming lessons similarly frightening (all transcriptions are as the students wrote and sent them, uncorrected):

"I think your fools for denying G.W. you know it could kill us all & you´re just adding to it. I want you to help stop G.W. not increase it."

"We are going to tell you about global warming. I don´t care if you don´t want to read, but I´m making you read it you horrible people."

"We feel that it is wrong what you are doing. We know that you know that global warming is NOT we repeat NOT a myth, And we think it is selfish that you would take money over yours and your peers lives."

"We feel upset because you are making Global Warming worse instead of helping it. We know that almost half of the country knows that G.W. is a crisis. We know that you could help the environment with the $800,000 you have."

"We feel that they are destroying our planet by saying G.W. is not a crisis. You think GW is not a crisis but it is; you know deep down that it´s a real thing that´s happening. Everyone has a part in helping GW, and you´re making worse."

"I do not think that what you are doing is right because you are telling people that global warming is not a crisis. If this is not a crisis, how come floods have occurred in asia, Mexico, and India. Plus, how can you explain why the glacier glaciers are melting. they can´t melt themselves, because they are in the coldest region in the world."

"Air pollution shrinks fetus size, 31 states target global warming, World must fix Climate in 10 years-UNDP, National disasters have quadrupled in two decades, and Global Warming Denier Group funded by Big Oil Hosting Climate Change Denial conference."

Off-Topic Articles

The students say they read 10 articles about global warming; their letters describe and identify seven of them.

Three of the articles have nothing to do with global warming or greenhouse gases. Two are dire predictions from non-scientists at the United Nations disaster relief agency, the U.N. Development Programme, and nongovernmental organizations engaged in disaster aid. One article relates state efforts at monitoring greenhouse gases.


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To: Politicalmom

It was a hint at homeschooling.


41 posted on 03/25/2008 10:17:57 AM PDT by SolidWood (All conservative effort into retaking Congress!)
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To: EPW Comm Team

Obviouslyt these kids have been taught very well in reading, writing, math (sarcasm off)


43 posted on 03/25/2008 10:24:52 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Bill Clinton: HILLARY!'s other big ass)
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To: EPW Comm Team

Listen to us, you horrible people.

44 posted on 03/25/2008 10:27:54 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
Excerpt:

If you doubt teachers across the country are trying to brainwash schoolchildren with global warming alarmism, take a look inside the sixth grade classroom of teacher Michael Steria at David A. Brown Middle School in Wildomar, California...

45 posted on 03/25/2008 10:28:29 AM PDT by nutmeg (Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
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To: EPW Comm Team
My 6-year old is getting some of this Earth Day indoctrination this week. Last night he came home and said, “you know Dad if we don't keep the earth clean all the animals will die”. I need to work on a Reaganest way to counter this first exposure to this.

I did great when it came to the anti-meat indoctrination they got in the fall. He came home and said “Dad, if I were a Chicken would you eat me?” I asked him where he heard that question and he said from his teacher.
That night at dinner when he was happily gnawing on a BBQ Pork Rib, with brown sweet sauce spread ear to ear, I turned the question back at him and asked, “If I was a pig would you eat me?” in which he said, “Yep”

Good Answer. Dad 1 Teacher 0

46 posted on 03/25/2008 10:31:41 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: PGR88
My kids get this indoctrination at their school all the time.

As do mine...all four of them. They get this "Time for Kids" magazine that is loaded with this propaganda. Here is an example.

Excerpt:

10 Ways You Can Make A Difference

Can one person slow global warming? Sure! You and your family can take steps to cut the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere. Here are 10 tips to help you save the planet.

1. Wear hand-me-downs...
2. Change your lightbulbs. Replace regular bulbs with compact fluorescent lightbulbs...
3. Ride the bus...
4. Say no to plastic bags...
5. Open a window. Instead of running the air conditioner...
6. Rake the leaves...[I like this one]
7. Take a cool shower...
8. Plant trees, especially in tropical forests...[get going kids]
9. Shut off your computer...
10. Reduce, reuse, recycle...

My 6th grader finds a new article ocassionally placed on her desk when she arrives. She is known as the skeptic by her teachers and classmates. At least her teacher respects her opinion and made her join Student Council because of her refusal to back down from her beliefs.

Even Fox News is doing this on the radio. I heard one of their "tips to make a cool change" the other night. They said not to use things like "slip-n-slides" and sprinklers in the summer because of their waste of water.....wonderful...when are they going to pass a law to deny my kids their slip-n-slide?
47 posted on 03/25/2008 10:32:28 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: EPW Comm Team

This reminds me of an article from The Onion where Santa was alarmed at the poor grammar and spelling in letters to him then proceeded to shame and castigate the children. Unfortunately that is exactly what needs to be done not only for the mechanical failures of language but also for the parroting of junk science. This “teacher” needs to have his name dragged through the mud and the kids need a stiff dose of the reality of what happens when you show your ass to the world.


48 posted on 03/25/2008 10:32:28 AM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: EPW Comm Team
What's everybody complaining about? They're the hope of the GOP!

 

49 posted on 03/25/2008 10:42:46 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the RINO population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: EPW Comm Team

LOL! Yes, these little comrades even sound like their predecessors at the DUmp.

Happily, my homeschooled 5th grader and 8th grader both recognize the whole GW propaganda campaign for what it is, BS. They really laughed about it when we had snow squalls here in GA yesterday!


50 posted on 03/25/2008 10:47:04 AM PDT by VRWCer ("The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson)
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To: tennteacher

Yes, kids are the new experts now days. You see them in commercials talking about how their daddy (as stupid as he is) should be investing his money, how much life insurance he should have, etc. Another has the kids talking about health care.

These kids can’t even pick up their dirty clothes but you better listen to them.


51 posted on 03/25/2008 10:48:29 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (Vote for the liars, they promise you more of other people's stuff.)
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To: NavyCanDo
I need to work on a Reaganest way to counter this first exposure to this.

The "Weekly Readers" that I used to get in 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade back in the (cough)Late70s had GREAT stories on how we were all going to die from pollution by the year 2000. If we first didn't all starve to death, or die of cancer, or run out of oil, or die in a nuclear holocaust.

OR freeze to death in the coming Ice Age.

My point? If you can dig some of them up (no idea where they'd be found) they might be an excellent counterpoint, written at a child's level, to expose the propaganda that's being shoveled at your kids now. As in "See, they've been saying this for 30-odd years, they were wrong then, and they're still wrong."

52 posted on 03/25/2008 10:49:32 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Politicalmom
If they're private "Christian" schools (rather than leftist, Marxist "churches" that follow the Marxist zealot, Jim Wallis), send them this:

The Christians, Pope John Paul II, and now Pope Benedict XVI teach that proper stewardship of our environment is one of the individual Christian's responsibilities toward God, in this order:

"..an authentic...theology: [is] one that puts [1] God and the life of the spirit first, [2] direct charitable care of others second, [3] and only then draws consequences for a just social order." http://ncrcafe.org/node/1091">HERE

At a Vatican conference on climate change, Pope Benedict urged bishops, scientists and politicians - including UK environment secretary David Miliband - to "respect creation" while "focusing on the needs of sustainable development". The Pope's message ... that "disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa".

.. About four years ago theprogressives began ..redefining environmentalism as "creation care", ....

Although the World Council of Churches in Geneva has had a department to investigate climate change since 1990, churches have come late to the debate. "The [environment and religion] is a no-brainer, but we are all only now realising it", said Claire Foster, environmental policy adviser to the Church of England.

[[[ NOTE: World Council of Churches is the largest coalition of leftist religious denominations in the United States and has a long record of financial support for Communist regimes: HERE ]]]]

[[[ Pope Benedict, on the other hand, denounces Marxist/Communist influence warning where it leads: HERE ]]]

Many faiths also realise their potential to influence politicians and financiers. A survey by US bank Citigroup found that the 11 major faiths now embrace 85% of the world's population and are the world's third largest group of financial investors. In the US the United methodist church pension fund alone is worth $12bn-$15bn (£6bn-£7bn). Total investment of US churches is nearly $70bn. Switching to ethical investments would be hugely significant. [Follow the money as usual.]

One Catholic priest impatient for change is Seán McDonagh, a Columban missionary and author of books on ecology and religion. "The Catholic church's social teaching on human rights and justice has been good, but there has been little concern about the impact on the planet. The church has been caught up on its emphasis on development and on resisting population control, but if we are pro-life we should be banging the drum now about climate change." .."

Source: John Vidal and Tom Kington in Rome Friday April 27, 2007 The Guardian HERE bttt

53 posted on 03/25/2008 10:53:12 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Proud member of "Operation Chaos" having the T-shirt , ball cap and bumpersticker to prove it.)
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To: EPW Comm Team

For you parents who wish to counter the indoctrination BS coming from schools. Understanding the The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy will help you.

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Chemistry/Generalchemistry/Energy/LawofConservation/LawofConservation.htm


54 posted on 03/25/2008 10:53:32 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: EPW Comm Team

http://www.nea.org/neatodayextra/willsteger.html


55 posted on 03/25/2008 10:57:40 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: paul51
the indoctrination is proceeding well

It's a tag-team match - indoctrination is paired with dumbing-down.

56 posted on 03/25/2008 10:58:16 AM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: PeterFinn
Orwell would be proud.

It does appear that this could be the bud of a very successful "Two Minute Hate" program.

57 posted on 03/25/2008 10:58:26 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: paul51

http://www.nea.org/international/index.html


58 posted on 03/25/2008 10:58:45 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: deuteronlmy232

Maybe.

But what about the plan of a tuition tax credit up to $X for the educational expenses at the institution of your choice (even home schooling expenses)?

I know, you accept the devil’s money, he gets to call the shots. Perhaps we can legislate that part out, though.


59 posted on 03/25/2008 11:02:24 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: bird4four4

Most education majors that I’ve met don’t know how to properly use the language, solve an algebra problem, or how to explain the relationship of the sun, moon, earth and planets.

And these are the “only people qualified to teach your kids”.


60 posted on 03/25/2008 11:03:59 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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