While doing a Google search, I chanced upon this site, which belongs to the Geography department at Bishop Challoner School. The school is independent, so it's up to them what they teach, but my goodness, if this is the standard of thinking they develop in their children, they wouldn't get a penny of my money.
Homework for 29/1/07 ...Produce a powerpoint presentation on what Bromley Council is doing to try and be sustainable. [...]
What must be included:
The reason why sustainability is required in Bromley.
Why we should recycle.
[...]
Not if we should recycle, or when we should recycle, but why we should recycle. The person who wrote this is clearly intellectually challenged. Do they really believe that it is always best to recycle? No matter what level of resources is required? Who would want their children taught by someone who believed such nonsense?
If you scroll down a little more you come to this:
Create a poster on Global Warming based on the movie inconvenient truth.
(Dodgy capitalisation in original)
Or how about this:
The greatest wonder of the sea is that it's still alive.
(That's from a Greenpeace poster which is being used as a teaching aid, it seems)
I remember James Bartholemew saying that he was taking his daughter out of school because the independents were becoming infected with the shoddy standards of the state sector. It looks to me as if he was right - if I were a Bishop Challoner parent, I'd be asking for a refund.