Report: Teachers Inserting Climate Change
into Curriculum Without Training, Textbooks
Breitbart Politics,
by
Penny Star
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
7/8/2019 7:13:26 AM
Despite the unsettled science and evidence to the contrary, teachers without training or textbooks are giving lessons to U.S. public school students on the threat of manmade climate change.
An article from the Hechinger Report picked up by the Washington Post reports:
Teaching global warming in a charged political climate. … Their training doesn’t cover it and many textbooks don’t touch it but teachers are taking on climate change anyway. (Tweet) The article focuses on a school in Oklahoma, where many students have parents who have good jobs in the flourishing oil and gas industry in the state, that promotes environmentalists’ belief that fossil fuels are the main culprit causing climate change.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/8/2019 7:23:12 AM (No. 117215)
Homeschool, do it now!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/8/2019 7:35:37 AM (No. 117227)
School teachers used to be mere puppets in the government propaganda industry, now they are part of the problem. When you teach junk science you can no longer be called a "teacher" you are a mere tool of the state. I remember having some really smart teachers when I was growing up but those days are long gone.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/8/2019 7:38:59 AM (No. 117230)
More than once, I remember being stuck in a class where I considered the subject matter irrelevant, of little interest, and at times, flat out false. I learned to keep my personal opinion to myself, and parrot whatever the teacher was preaching so I could ace the class. I promptly discarded the subject matter after completing the class. Climate change would be one of those subjects. Tell the teacher what they want to hear, get a good grade, and move on.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/8/2019 8:19:16 AM (No. 117258)
Of course climate changes... it's called SEASONS.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GO3 7/8/2019 8:35:17 AM (No. 117271)
OK, I'm prepared to take slings and arrows but I am a public school science teacher. I embarked on a thrid career for exactly the kind of thing talked about in the article. I just decided to quit complaining and do something about it as best I can. My experiences have been good because it's a very small school, the admin has our backs, and discipline problems are addressed immediately. The other advantage is that I and others in my cohort went through an alternative certification program. We were all older, had practiced in our fields, and were more experienced in instruction.
The problems with anything having to with science are many. They include:
- Young teachers fresh out of college who are dropped in an elementary classroom and is expected to be a jack of all trades including science. The aftermarket education industry cranks out all sorts of science kits, supplemental materials, lab stuff for the simple reason that many teachers don't "get" science, yet are required to teach it regardless of policy on climate change. The problem is painted as a qualification and textbook issue, when it really is a science knowledge issue. If teachers were knowledgeable about science they could en mass tell the state where to get off.
- The emphasis on climate change really points to deficiencies in teaching basic science for the reasons stated above. Apparently, Oklahoma is just fine with teaching this stuff to students who can't or won't grasp basic chemistry, biology, or physics. That's what I focus on. Any questions on climate change I address scientifically. Surprisingly, at our school, some students are very skeptical about climate change nonsense.
- The state education establishment is likely made up of older teachers who started fresh out of college and have drunk the kool-aid for a couple of decades. If you are an experienced professional breaking in to teaching, just realize the state and some of your peers don't like you. They say they want more teachers, but this is bunk. They want the "right kind" of teachers - i.e., malleable. Also, way too much money flows to the establishment instead of the schools and teachers. And when it does flow down, there are a lot of strings attached.
- In teacher preparation, science is not something emphasized.. Rather its focus is on reading and basic language skills. This is OK if one is going into elementary level, but not the higher grades where more complex subjects are taught. A generalist would find it extremely difficult to teach higher level science.
- My experience is that homeschooling is not a silver bullet. I've met exactly one home schooled student who knew what he was talking about. Many times, home schooling is an excuse for the parents who don't want to confront the challenges of either private or public schools so let's do the home school thing. I'm not saying do away with it, but many times it doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I'll repeat my solution: revoke all truancy laws. The people responsible for educating their children are the parents. They should choose the mechanism and live with the consequences.
Thanks for hearing me out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 7/8/2019 8:46:05 AM (No. 117287)
Propaganda.
Lies.
Pure and simple.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/8/2019 8:59:01 AM (No. 117307)
Back in my day, it was all about pollution. Tge difference was, we could look out tge window and see the smog and the trash on the roads and rivers.
The problem was obvious.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
grampus 7/8/2019 9:12:27 AM (No. 117324)
#6...Excellent, on target comments from the LTG..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/8/2019 9:14:11 AM (No. 117327)
#6 you are so full of yourself and crap.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/8/2019 9:17:26 AM (No. 117333)
P.S. It is always the "parents fault" for the failure of your so called "education"; All of you "educators" should be locked up.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/8/2019 9:58:51 AM (No. 117379)
Climate change, you know it use to be called global warming, is not even science. It's an after thought designed to make some people rich and target countries like the US become poorer for the sake of global equality. Who ever heard of a carbon tax before these hucksters of global warming came along? Indoctrination is not teaching it's fake like 'climate change' is.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/8/2019 9:59:23 AM (No. 117381)
I work at a university and my students have all drunk the kool aid when it comes to climate change. I've talked about the middle ages and the warm period, and the little ice age and even the year without a summer and nothing gets through. Oddly enough, me the the conservative lives a much greener life than they do. I live in a small house and drive a small car. I generate maybe one bag of garbage a week and recycle all I can. And I don't worry about climate change that much. One good volcanic eruption can do a whole lot more to the climate than we can.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GO3 7/8/2019 10:10:23 AM (No. 117401)
#10, thanks for your thoughtful critique.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 7/8/2019 10:26:26 AM (No. 117414)
#10 makes salient points in regards to public school. NOT on homeschool. I am going to assume you are using public school standards to judge the homeschool movement and I call BS on that myself. I have met all too many PS teachers who were willing to throw a student AND their parents under the bus because they didnt want to be bothered or had already made a determination that that student was not worth fighting for. I know this because it happened to me. Both in Pub School AND Private...many of which are standardizing themselves to match with the State in order to gain prominence. By the time my child was in 1st grade the teachers were already pigeonholing my daughter as a child they were willing to let slip through the cracks and ran the other way whenever I tried to assure them that I would work with them to help my child become a better student. One of them even had the audacity to tell me I should go home and have more babies.
When I made the point that I CANT have any more babies because of severe medical issues that occurred during my first pregnancy, they sneered and told me my child was doomed anyway.
When my daughter was in first grade, I had parent/teacher meetings and the interview always...ALWAYS...started out with "what is going on at home that is preventing your child from doing their homework?" Nasty little way of putting me on the defensive, especially when I made no aggression towards the teacher or the admin about the problems my child was having. My response of "she never brings home her homework" fell on deaf ears. When I offered to come in to help her get her homework, I was refused and told to shut up and stay in the pick up line. I didnt dare challenge her on her responsibilty in helping my daughter bring her homework in because I wanted to be seen as a helpful parent and willing to work with the teacher. I grew up with teachers and nurses in the family. I understood what they went through.
I GOT NOTHING.
So if I was always going to be called on the carpet and blamed for how my daughter was, I was going to take matters into my own hands. I dont hate all PS teachers, but I have a definite bias against them. Homeschool was INFINITELY better than anything she could have received at a public school. I was not willing to sacrifice my one and only for the whims and prejudices and ugly natures of PS teachers.
So there.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 7/8/2019 10:57:02 AM (No. 117449)
You see the climate change BS all over the "popular" science magazines, too!
At some point in history (personally, I believe it's when "scientists" decided they needed to erase God from the picture by pushing the pathetically inaccurate theory of evolution), science stopped being about what can be tested, observed, and proven, and instead, became a "religion" or belief system--a way to prove that God did NOT exist, or in the case of climate . . . whatever, to extract money from the masses! After all, if scientists can con people into believing God doesn't exist, what else can they sell to the sheeple?
When you look at the ideals of science (using evidence to prove or disprove something) and you look at where we are today, you realize that somewhere along the way, the ideals and the reality have gone in two completely opposite directions! This happens when people start with a firm belief in something and then become entrenched and close-minded about it (i.e., there is no God).
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/8/2019 12:38:11 PM (No. 117581)
#6, thank you for your post.
Our youngest son is a rising junior, Chemistry/Pre Med, and sort of a Chemistry savant. He just had his first publication, first author of four. (That, I am told, is a big deal.) And he has asked every one of his Science professors if man-made climate change is taking place. Each professor has said, "I don't know."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 7/8/2019 1:07:19 PM (No. 117613)
Sorry for the extra post but I should have previewed before posting. #6
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
edgar 7/8/2019 3:41:56 PM (No. 117760)
So what is the problem? Climate Change is the answer to anything you are in search of an answer to. It is not based on science, but is a great excuse to explain away anything and everything. Flood or drought, hot or cold, too much or not enough, even illegal immigration.
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