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Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials
"God created the idiot for practice - then he created the school board." - Mark TwainIn a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools. "It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis," said Lincoln High School The science is settled! You deniers must not be allowed to speak! The resolution passed Tuesday evening calls for the school district to get rid of textbooks or other materials that cast doubt on whether climate change is occurring and that the activity of human beings is responsible. The resolution also directs the superintendent and staff to develop an implementation plan for "curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools." Bill Bigelow, a former PPS "A lot of the text materials are kind of thick with the language of doubt, and obviously the science says otherwise," Bigelow says, accusing the publishing industry to bowing to pressure from fossil fuels companies. "We don’t want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry." Instead we want them learning material courtesy of the 'Environmental' movement. Bigelow is also the co-author of a textbook on environmental education, A People's Curriculum for the Earth. Asked if this resolution will cause the district to buy new textbooks, such as his book, Bigelow said Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, not a money-maker. Yeah - so how much salary is this nonprofit paying him? And how about the royalties on the book... "What we're asking for is not: Buy new stuff," he said. "What we're looking for is a whole different model of curriculum development and distribution." Something we control! Your pay later of course. Oh, you can pay now, too... Bigelow said the district already has climate-change literacy curriculum, such as at Sunnyside Environmental School, and he I'm already making big money from this! School board member Mike Rosen introduced the resolution. He also leads NW Ecoliteracy Collaborative, a project focused on environmental curriculum standards. However, he says that work has been on hold. yeah... right.... "I have become concerned about its ability to In that case the standard, ethical, and honorable stance would be to excuse yourself from the decision making process. But then there's about as much ethics and honor as there is concern for the actual environment in the 'environmental' movement these days. some of the comments at the link are a hoot! Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-05-20 |
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