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Bishop Hill Climate lessons
Jun 3, 2010 Blogs Climate: other Education Greens Regular commenter John Shade has started a new blog called Climate Lessons, which will look at the way environmentalism and other green issues are taught in schools.
Why not pay him a visit?
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Frightening the widders and orphings for a living. I'd divorce him, too.
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I paid a visit but can't leave a comment as I don't have one of the required "profiles".
I suggest John Shade has a look into "Cool The World" and "Schools Low Carbon Day" which share the same website.
I hope his brief extends to non-school agit-prop like the (former) government's nauseating ads aimed at children: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. There was none as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought." :(
Nice site.
Involving children in political campaigns is wrong. It's wrong wrong wrong.
If being wrong isn't enough reason then 2 more problems are:
1) It makes children feel anxious and depressed.
2) It wastes time when they could be learning something useful.
Many parents pay for extra out-of-school lessons in maths, music, sports. I don't know of any parents who pay for extra lessons in right-on stuff.
Many thanks for the plug, Bish!
Re dave ward's comment - thanks for the lead, and I have now changed the settings to allow anonymous comments.
I am feeling my way into running a blog, and have scarce a clue about settings, layout etc. But I hope to learn more soon.
Thanks, John - however I still can't leave any comments, or even preview them! I've come across this before with other similar layouts, and given up. Maybe a more knowledgeable person can explain why?
@Jack Hughes: "Involving children in political campaigns is wrong. It's wrong wrong wrong."
I agree Jack but this isn't a political campaign it's a religious campaign. The enviros are doing what all religions do. They are pointing to humanities evil ways and the need to repent before we are punished by gaia. They are trying to impel impressionistic kids into their religion.
Thanks, BH, I've added the blog to my blogroll!
During the Easter holidays I found out that my youngest had been shown Al Gore's film in school, and made a mental note to follow that up with the teachers. I forgot of course, until the week they went back, when I was told that that week they'd been shown the Channel 4 film as a response. Hooray said I, and more so when I realised that firstly the children had been very so-so about the first film, and impressed by the second. Given that the schools have to show the Al Gore film, but are more or less free to decide what balancing material to show (which they have to according to the recent judgement) I thought this was probably a good approach. It would be better of course if they used one set of properly put together material, with facts rather than spin.
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