[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants middle school students to consider what would happen if government regulations shut down the coal industry or another domestic energy source.
The question is part of a teaching guide the group plans to distribute to roughly 100,000 classrooms across the country as part of its "Shedding Light on Energy" program with educational publisher Scholastic Inc.
"What do you think could happen if one of our energy sources was suddenly unavailable (e.g., power plant maintenance, government curb on production, etc.)?" the guide asks.
Chamber officials maintain that there is no "hidden agenda" behind the question or the educational outreach effort in general. But given the current political climate surrounding the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the group's direct involvement in public school education is expected to make environmentalists and like-minded progressives uncomfortable.
Actually, the fact that Scholastic is using its wholesome name to traffic the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's pollution-friendly propaganda should be alarming to anyone with kids in the public school system. (I have two.) In fact, the hypocrisy embedded in the U.S. Chamber's involvement in producing education materials on energy for kids is downright shocking.

[Cog]

Here is some of the course content that has Cid all torqued up. I see nothing particularly ominous in students learning about energy.

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM169_e ... kshts.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')bjectives: Students will understand:
• the major U.S. energy sources and
how they are used, with a focus on
residential and transportation uses
• when to use different types of graphs
to display information

What are some key facts you
learned about energy?
• What do you think could happen
if one of our energy sources was
suddenly unavailable (e.g., power
plant maintenance, government
curb on production, etc.)?
• Do you think the graphs used
in the worksheets were the
appropriate types of graphs
to use for the information
displayed, and why?

[Cid_Yama]

Of course you wouldn't. To you, lack of regulation is fine, it's all a conspiracy. To you Meemoe is right. There is no such thing as global warming. Species are not going extinct.

The world is just hunky dory and you're not really fracking everybody over for your own profit even if it means the end of the world.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'O')f course you wouldn't. To you, lack of regulation is fine, it's all a conspiracy. To you Meemoe is right. There is no such thing as global warming. Species are not going extinct.

The world is just hunky dory and you're not really fracking everybody over for your own profit even if it means the end of the world.

[Oakley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'O')f course you wouldn't. To you, lack of regulation is fine, it's all a conspiracy. To you Meemoe is right. There is no such thing as global warming. Species are not going extinct.

The world is just hunky dory and you're not really fracking everybody over for your own profit even if it means the end of the world.

[Shar_Lamagne]

The world is ending soon enough. I want to see justice before the end. Whether that be heads in baskets or not. Keep the bit about your lies should get equal play to yourself.

Sorry, got carried away. I find it hard to take the lies.

Once the children have been taught critical thinking skills, your lies will have no effect. Until then they need to be protected from your propaganda.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'O')f course you wouldn't. To you, lack of regulation is fine, it's all a conspiracy. To you Meemoe is right. There is no such thing as global warming. Species are not going extinct.
The world is just hunky dory and you're not really fracking everybody over for your own profit even if it means the end of the world.

[PrestonSturges]

As Burroughs said:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '(')Prison psychiatrist) asked me what the American flag means to me. I said "Soak it in heroin Doc, and I'll suck on it." F*****g croaker wouldn't give me a goofball. Sez I have an attitude problem."

[Oakley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shar_Lamagne', 'T')hey world is ending soon enough. I want to see justice before the end. Whether that be heads in baskets or not. Keep the bit about your lies should get equal play to yourself.

Sorry, got carried away. I find it hard to take the lies.

[Oakley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'O')f course you wouldn't. To you, lack of regulation is fine, it's all a conspiracy. To you Meemoe is right. There is no such thing as global warming. Species are not going extinct.
The world is just hunky dory and you're not really fracking everybody over for your own profit even if it means the end of the world.

[Shar_Lamagne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', 'I') take it you want only one side of arguments to be presented, your side. I suppose that is either a discount of the capabilities of those listening to arguments from both sides, or some lack of confidence in your own belief system and the validity of your own arguments.

[Oakley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shar_Lamagne', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', 'I') take it you want only one side of arguments to be presented, your side. I suppose that is either a discount of the capabilities of those listening to arguments from both sides, or some lack of confidence in your own belief system and the validity of your own arguments.

[Cog]

Whenever I see a outlandish position taken by either the left or right, I always find there is some unmentioned reality somewhere else if you dig a little. Cid like to tell one side of this, I like pointing out the other. I'm not surprised it doesn't amuse him much.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shar_Lamagne', 'T')he world is ending soon enough. I want to see justice before the end. Whether that be heads in baskets or not. Keep the bit about your lies should get equal play to yourself.

Sorry, got carried away. I find it hard to take the lies.

Once the children have been taught critical thinking skills, your lies will have no effect. Until then they need to be protected from your propaganda.

[SeaGypsy]

What bollocks! Teaching children obvious facts about the impending danger the entire world is facing is 'political reeducation' as opposed to promoting the slave market debt driven status quo?
Critical thinking has almost exclusively always been about class.
If you come from an intelligent, broadly educated, open minded family with time to spare then you might be one of the tiny percentile who have any real ability for independent thought. If not, well; not.
Seeems to me a lot of very poorly educated and not particularly intelligent people are damn sure they are right, nomatter what reality slaps them with.
Classical education is of a bygone era and has become a hobby for oddball introverts, while everyone else acts in their own best short term interest; consequences be damned. The education system has become an industrial training complex, pure and simple; specialising only in specialisation.
I personally applaud any move back to a classical critical education system, even though it's too late to 'save the world'.
I believe that we have an innate right to understand as much as we are capable of grasping of reality. Teachers should be classicly trained or they should not be teachers other than in specialist technical capacity.

[Serial_Worrier]

Cid Yama is a raging fascist who wants HIS version of reality taught to the exclusion of all else.