Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Washington Post thinks Americans don’t take Climate Change seriously enough. Opinion columnist Catherine Rampell thinks we should look to the example of how German teachers educate children about Climate Change.
Take Emmy-Noether-Schule, an 800-student secondary school in east Berlin I visited recently. Educators there consider climate change so pressing that they integrate it into just about every class you can think of (including, when the instructor is so inclined, Latin). About a quarter of the content in the 10th-grade English textbook, for example, is about threats to planet Earth. That means when kids learn to use the conditional mood in English, their grammar exercises rely on sentences like this: “If we don’t do something about global warming, more polar ice will start to melt.”
Likewise, in an 11th-grade geography class dedicated entirely to sustainability, students write poetry about klimawandel (climate change). My favorite couplet, from an ode by student Hannah Carsted: “The water level rises/ The fish are in a crisis.”
I guess we can all learn something from the German example.
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Who knows better than the Germans how to brainwash, and infiltrate the elastic minds of a generation?
Hitler was a very good example of the techniques being used today, to push government-induced climaphobia!
Well the KGB (now the FSB) learned pretty well from them.
Well, to be fair: The Global Warming Hype was invented in the US by Americans like Hansen & co. The Germans – as usually – want only to be “model students” of their rulers (today the Americans). They just have an urgent need to be perfect, that is to say in this case: perfectly brainwashed followers of the new green religion…
BTW: One reason for this education folly in Germany is of course, that a great majority of all teachers are Greens or Socialists there.
smokey
Actually it was more the other way round – the Germans during the war learning from the Soviet NKVD (now KGB). They copied for instance Vishinsky’s Soviet show trials, punishment batallions and other innovations. It has been commented that while the Soviet NKVD implemented Stalin’s terror with efficiency and thoroughness, the Na3i gestapo were relatively idle since the German people denounced their neighbours very willingly.
The KGB, actually the forerunner of the KGB, predate anything the Nazis did. No one takes a second place in oppression to the Russians.
K. Kilty,
Yes, and we’re still having to deal with the goblins released during the Russian revolution.
“No one takes a second place in oppression to the Russians.”
Polpot was an amateur, he only killed 50% of his people. Mao, amateur also… Let’s just call all of those who would “do harm to others for their own gain” evil. It’s a good definition and applies to a lot of organizationa and people we discuss here.
People just aren’t listening to enough Pink Floyd (the music, not their opinion and punditry)
Hey, TEACHER, LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE!
– Roger Waters
philsalmon
June 9, 2015 at 4:20 pm
“It has been commented that while the Soviet NKVD implemented Stalin’s terror with efficiency and thoroughness,”
During the purge, Stalin gave out quotas of counterrevolutionaries to be executed, so the executioners had to or else THEY would be used to fulfill the quota.
” the Na3i gestapo were relatively idle since the German people denounced their neighbours very willingly.”
Not so sure about that. Nazis bought Hollerith tabulator machines from Hollerith/IBM to build up the world’s first complete registry of the entire population of a nation. Only this enabled them to identify about every last Jew.
Not too far off the mark. Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, studied Edward Benays, the Austrian-born American “Father of Public Relations and Propaganda.” The similarities and cross pollination between Nazi Germany and the progressive left in America of the 1930s seems to have resonant echos in both countries today…
Very true Jerry. We have an avowed socialist is running for president and a “re-distributional” socialist/communist is now president. Quite an advance in evil socialism from the 1930 to now.
“… they integrate it into just about every class … students write poetry … .”
And there are likely songs to sing … and band music… and speeches and cheers…
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” Adolf H1tler
(youtube)
Ly1ing to children is abuse.
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Who lost the propaganda war,
Truth will win.
Reminds me of school children performing odes to the Great Obama.
@ur momisugly MarkW — me, too.
The double irony, Janice, is that Emmy Nöther was a brilliant mathematician who proved, among other things, that symmetry in a dynamical physical system implied a conservation law. This is fundamental physics these days. One expects she’d be horrified to find that propaganda represented as science is force-fed to children in a school named in her honor.
Yes, Dr. Frank, very true! And I have no doubt that Max Planck would be horrified at his namesake in the climate dept. these days, too!
And he Republican leadership in the house and Senate performing roll over acts (not as cute as poodles) for Obama.
Dear Dr. Frank: It bothered me all last night, so here I am to say: thank you for INFORMING me about Nother. My comment made it sound as if I already knew about her. Thank you!
Janice, please call me Pat. 🙂 That’s all I am to me.
My, thoughts exactly. Next they’ll be marching shouting “Sig Gore.”
al gorebbels
You meant ‘Sieg Gore’ right?
Don’t expect a SIG Gore.
“Sieg Gore” is correct (Never was good at foreign languages). Perhaps it should be “Heil Gore” accompanied with the nazi salute and heel-clicking.
We should salute him with “er ist unser Nobelpreisträger Klima furor!”.
oops, should be fuhrer, not furor. (The german my grandma Lochhaas taught me in the 60’s has been mostly forgotten.)
He would never fit into that white driving suit.
Well, they all learned it from Woodrow Wilson’s propagandist, Edward L. Bernays: Propaganda, which he later called “Public Relations.”
Exactly!
“Edward L. Bernays”
…who was an Ashkenazim… (nephew of Siegmund Freud)
So, is Eric Worrell a German?
Yeah, the Germans first did this with National Socialism
I’m not sure Hitler brainwashed anyone, but the US media has been brainwashing Americans for a century or more.
Who knows better than the Germans how to brainwash, and infiltrate the elastic minds of a generation?
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MusIims. Try going to a Madrassa, where they only study the Koran until aged eleven. And then they wonder why Muslim scientists cannot win Nobel prizes……!
There are Nobel prizes for Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and now even Economics, when are we going to get them for the most important science Climate?
In fact the Germans are very good at it, because laws continuing from Hitler means every child must get educated by the state without any exceptions. Hitler knew that if the state could control what the children learn, they could create loyal followers.
And people wonder how the National Socialist German Workers Party could ever rise to power in such an advanced country. This is the answer.
Versailles Treaty. Look it up. Nothing to do with current situation.
I hear they have a “final solution” to climate change…
Spot on!
Godwin is early today…
There is no Godwin when germans are the subject.
What’s he got to do with it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin,_Earl_of_Wessex
Godwin is a meaningless statistical observation of no relevance to any argument.
True, ‘Godwin’ is meaningless, and it is usually misunderstood. All it says is that the longer a thread goes on, the likelihood of Hitler or the Nazis being mentioned approaches 1.
Nice quip, but does it let you out of any future consequences ?
Alba’s Law states that anybody who uses Godwin’s Law has already lost the argument.
Well, the topic under discussion is Ecofascism, so…
Severian………..That was awesome.
Good Lord – mass brainwashing…
And it’s already in a school near you. Climate change is supposed to be a part of every Common Core lesson. The concepts being brought in under the Common Core banner have many aspects of the old Soviet style teachings. More at Robin’s blog here: http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/
You are correct about Common Crap
Scary, thought control, reminds me of back in 1939…
History teaches us that when Germans get doctrinelized, results are tragic. The only salvation are free thinking Americans!
If I may correct your statement, historically the only answer is free thinking Britons who are willing to stand up for the less powerful (in 1914 Belgium, in 1939 Poland). when British leaders fail to do this then chaos results, Americans will eventually stand up for the less powerful when they have bankrupted the supporters of liberty.
Humph, the British finished their fighting for Poland after 1945. But then it was not free again but under the fist of Stalin…
Poland received only minimal support from GB against Germany, and none at all against the Russian invaders. In September 1939, after the German invasion, “most British bomber activity over Germany was the dropping of propaganda leaflets and reconnaissance.” –Wankerpedia
France lied to the Poles. They announced an attack, but instead retreated to their own defensive lines.
Churchill was against the Normandy invasion. He wanted to head north from north east Italy. This would have limited the Soviet land grab.
The war against Germany didn’t end until about 1995 I think it was. It wasn’t until then there was a return to a unified Germany.
🙂 I think it’s hard to argue with Richard of NZ there. As a Norwegian, I will say that a sympathetic friend without the means to defend the less powerful (“Norway is on their own”) is less valuable than a very powerful friend with people who were willing to do something like this:
Nothing can adequately explain or express gratitude for this.
Viking,
Well said. Thanks.
Not for nothing was the Britain of yore called Perfidious Albion.
Churchill knew the IJN task force was going to attack Pearl Harbor, but didn’t tell the US. Of course, perfidious FDR probably knew, too.
I’m sorry that I’m a little late to reply to those who commented on my statement.
“Gentle Tramp
June 9, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Humph, the British finished their fighting for Poland after 1945. But then it was not free again but under the fist of Stalin…
Reply.. In 1945 Britain was bankrupt and totally war weary (my father got his call up telegram on 24th November 1939). Plus, the eastern European zone of influence was ceded to Stalin by FDR at Yalta against the wishes of Churchill.
jorgekafkazar
June 9, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Poland received only minimal support from GB against Germany, and none at all against the Russian invaders
Reply… Britain had no direct means of supporting Poland. It’s aircraft did not have the range to give support and naval support could not be provided as belligerant warships may only enter neutral waters to obtain essential repairs to make a vessel seaworthy. The waters between Denmark and Sweden are neutral waters. Germany built the Kiel canal to get around this difficulty. The British armed forces were at their normal 150,000 men scattered through three services and spread around the world. The Polish forces were more powerful! Britain nearly came to blows with Russia but the treaty between Finland and Germany was a complication. Can you imagine what it would have been like: Britain allied to Finland against Russia, allied with Russia against Germany, Germany allied with Finland against Russia etc.?
““most British bomber activity over Germany was the dropping of propaganda leaflets and reconnaissance.””
Reply… There were treaties and conventions in place banning the bombing of non-military targets. Even the accidental bombing of civilians was looked down upon to such an extent that effectively no bombing was done. Even after the bombing of Warsaw (and later Rotterdam) the British tried to keep to the conventions for a considerable time.
France lied to the Poles.
Reply .. France is not Britain
Brian in the US
June 9, 2015 at 3:40 pm
Churchill was against the Normandy invasion.
Reply.. Churchill never had any doubts as to the character of Stalin. It was FDR who thought Stalin was not a monster and could be treated as a normal human being.
A big reason why Ecomentalism is taking a nose-dive in England is because of teachers pushing it. Kids *HATE* teachers. And quite right, too.
English kids maybe. History teaches us that Germans are tragicaly more inclined to listen to their leaders…
i know folks that live in Germany and Austria that will tell you that this global warming idea is false.
The majority of Germans did not support Hitler’s policies. Though, few were willing to speak up for fear of the consequences. Which, I think illustrates the danger posed by any unelected, unaccountable political party gaining power. The risk is that the organisation in question may turn nasty even if it was not originally evil, and once that party has unlimited power it will be dangerous to oppose it. Climate change and the burning of the Reichstag have a lot in common.
The Greens want to create a world power to control carbon dioxide emissions, and if that world power turned nasty and started exterminating people, it might take World War 3 to unseat it.
That 10-10 video featuring a teacher coolly and calmly blowing up two of her students might have had an effect?
That video clearly shows an unconscious desire on the part of warmists to kill children of people who don’t believe their lies.
Jorge, were they uncouncious when they made the video?
KIds don’t hate teachers. But they don’t respect them if the teacher is obviously pushing crap on them.
The East Germans pushed the virtues of Communism in schools for 50 years. At the end of that time there were as many committed Communists in the West as the East.
Interesting that home-schooling in Germany is a criminal offense. The law dates back to pre-WWII, and was intended to enforce Party ideology on the masses. The law in still enforced, presumably for the same reason. In the US, Common Core education standards looks to bring the same sort of emphasis on Global Warming into the classroom.
You should read John Taylor Gatto on this subject,if you haven’t already. The entire Westen compulsory schooling regime originates from a proto-Nazi system designed primarily to indoctrinate, secondarily to educate.
It’s Not Just Germany – While You Were Sleeping
The U.S. “Common Core” began the construction of Climate Education in 2010. The following two articles report on the process. Thirteen states have already implemented Climate Studies as a focal means of teaching science. The New York Times [free] article notes that Common Core focus may crowd out basic sciences study. Physics and Chemistry may suffer. The wall Street Journal [Behind Paywall] by Paul Tice directly addresses the propaganda focus of the Common Core initiate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/science/panel-calls-for-broad-changes-in-science-education.html?_r=0
http://www.wsj.com/articles/schoolroom-climate-change-indoctrination-1432767611?KEYWORDS=paul+tice
Have fun storming the castle!
You can dodge the WSJ paywall here:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/schoolroom-climate-change-indoctrination-1432767611
Pretty scary. We’re right behind Germany.
/Mr Lynn
Do Germans ever wonder “How did Hitler ever happen?”
No need to wonder. The roots of Hitler’s rise to power are here:
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/starvation1919.html
Hell I’m wondering how did obama ever happen!
And so, sadly, shall future generations.
Obama happened because of America’s mea culpa over slavery. It didn’t matter that O doesn’t have a drop of slave blood in him. He looked the part, that was enough.
Well, his American mom might have had a drop of African-American slave ancestry. Lots of “white” Americans do, myself included. Since “black” Americans have about 20% European ancestry, it would be no surprise that “white” Americans whose ancestors lived in the South in the 17th and 18th centuries might have on average around 2% African ancestry.
We’re ALL African. Do a search on mDNA.
Slywolfe
June 9, 2015 at 2:51 pm
“Do Germans ever wonder “How did Hitler ever happen?””
No. We have no concept of wondering.
In the US Common Core is the vehicle to indoctrinate children. Those that complain are shamed and accused of being conspiracy theorists. I wonder how the Germans will handle the collapse of their industries and power shortages? Will they quietly go along “for the cause” while India, China, Australia, and the like prosper at their expense? We should probably thank them for being the guinea pigs. I doubt the advanced Western Cultures will succumb quietly to Green dominance.
“The water level rises/ The fish are in a crisis.”
Well that is not very promising.. as anything but the fish might be in a crisis if the water level rises…
+1
But it might be the wrong sort of water.
Thin, rotten water?
Yes, I noticed the lack of a /sarc tag; I agree it’s not easy to drown fish by higher water levels (presumably of the oceans).
Ah, but perhaps the water is too warm for the fish…
I dearly HOPE the teacher gave the kid a D- for that logic, if it was heartfelt. But, let’s also consider that the kid was intentionally using an ironic expression to tweak the teacher’s own stupidity, and to shout that the brainwashing job has failed, and that a free-thinking education broke through in spite of it. How cool would that be? A+
Given that those of German descent make up the largest ethnic minority in the USA
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21642222-americas-largest-ethnic-group-has-assimilated-so-well-people-barely-notice-it
it is not too surprising that the US had been the greatest promoter and exporter of climate change histrionics.
Stop and think about that for a moment: All of the Germans I the US either left Germany, or are descended from people who left Germany.
Ever wonder why the US is a different kind of place than the countries that we all came from?
Because the people who are here and the ones THAT GOT THE HELL OUT!
…are the ones…
*dang*
Here are just a few of those German-Americans:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Carl Andrew Spaatz
Chester W. Nimitz
Albert Einstein (1940).
P.S. I must honor Dr. Einstein’s personal preference, however, to not be known as a German (given how he was treated by some of them). He preferred Austrian (or Swiss), IIRC.
Don’t forget the likes of Adolf Coors, Joseph Schlitz, Bud Weiser, etc. 🙂
(spelling?) … Hansen, Ehrlich, Mann, Gore, Schnieder, Schmitt, …
Sleepalot
June 9, 2015 at 9:56 pm
“(spelling?) … Hansen, Ehrlich, Mann, Gore, Schnieder, Schmitt, …”
Hansen is likely Swedish, Gore is not a German word, the rest could be Germanic or Ashkenazim (which is Hebrew for German). Finding a consensus is a typical Jewish tradition; not a German one. German scientists have clashed with each other (e.g. Helmholtz vs. Weber), not formed consensi.
Wernher von Braun
“Under NASA, he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. According to one NASA source, he is, “without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history” – Wiki
http://maxkade.iupui.edu/nameword/map1.gif
The above map might be read as: Minnesotan Lebensraum
MN is more Scandinavian. WI is more German.
I was born a Lutheran German in Wisconsin!
And look what this German heritage in Minnesota has resulted in! This is for ice-hockey fans – who, unlike the fish, would suffer if global warming were real!
It looks like the German American heartland is also the heartland of CAGW skepticism.
emsnews
June 9, 2015 at 5:59 pm
You are decidedly not alone and in very good company.
There’s a Marilyn Monroe movie in which the plot turns on her character’s ability to understand German, having grown up in Wisconsin.
And one of the reasons why the U.S. stayed out of both world wars as long as they could. Besides the U.S. population back then was isolationist since the War of Independence and wanted stay out of European affairs.
The colonies had Germans too back in 1775.
German Achievements in America 8
Heroes in the War of Independence
Bored rifles used in the war were made by German gunsmiths of Pennsylvania.
Short article worth reading. History is now so poorly taught.
http://www.germanheritage.com/Publications/cronau/cronau8.html
It is true that Americans have led in the campaign to alarm the world about rising CO2 and the dangers of global warming. But I don’t attribute that to any particular ethnicity. It’s more complicated.
Part of it is what Henry Ford said: “History is Bunk.” The American instinct is to dismiss the past as a meaningful constraint upon the present and future. That is a good thing for innovation, but a bad thing to lack a context for understanding present events in comparison to what has happened before. So much of climate indoctrination involves hiding the historical context of natural variability, in order to claim today is unprecedented, and “this time it is different.”
Another part of the American movement is semi-religious attitude for all things environmental. Again a good thing to prevent and clean up industrial pollution, but it morphs into condemnation of anything technological and a wistful illusion of returning to pristine nature.
“Thirteen states have already implemented Climate Studies as a focal means of teaching science.”
My Gosh! Science education at the secondary level has been replaced by indoctrination. “Climate Studies” are fit only to demonstrate (A) what a science looks like coming out of the birth canal or (B) how not to do science. In the latter case, the study should be preceded by an explanation of scientific method through the works of Kepler, Newton, Galileo, and Einstein. Other scientists could be included.
so they want to spy on us, control our medical, control what we eat, control what we think, control our education…..
Young Pioneers (with green scarves)
I have a new favorite swear word!!! KLIMAWANDEL!!! From now on, anytime I see something totally outrageous, KLIMAWANDEL will come charging out of my mouth! Thanks for a really weird story and great word. Love it!
Yes I liked that klimawandel as well. Of course the correct name would be Erderwärmung
(Global warming) – although it doesn’t have the same ‘musical tone’.
… to the tune of “Frere Jaques”…. kinda catchy … (NOT) heh
(except as a swear word — LOL — LOVE IT PAMELA!)
Don’t forget the rap song (in German with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AybBEuIpy44
Vunderbar
Now that I’ve read through the comments, let’s not make the same mistake German did, accusing a group of people for all their ills. The tomato throwing at teachers going on here reminds me of the beginnings of the tomato throwing at Jews. Folks, rise above the enemy’s playbook. Teachers are not the culprit here.
Indeed.
Besides, regardless of the actual level of indoctrination, it will fail to convert the kids. It is not for nothing that these tactics have always failed in the past even when, for a time, they have had tragic consequences.
In the meantime, going off on the “Germans” resolves nothing.
We do need to acknowledge that fact, Brute, that it is not only Germans who do such things (and some above already have made this point). No ethnic group or race or country is exempt, that is, indeed, true, however…
ignoring the lessons of history to save the feelings of some is done at our peril.
I do not think any of the discourse here or on any other blogs or internet discussion sites really resolves anything. It merely serves to disseminate opinion and information, and let people know what others are thinking.
But if ever a thing was worthy of criticism, systematically lying to children under the guise of education has to be right up near the top of the list.
No matter who is doing it.
There is plenty of it going on here.
But I agree with those who point out that children are not necessarily buying what their teachers are selling, no matter where or when or what the topic.
Kids know all about lying and BS at a very young age, and will sit and listen, but later discuss amongst themselves how full of crap adults are.
@Janice Moore
While we might be displeased wit the speed of acquisition, some of the lessons of history are being learned. It’s becoming more and more difficult to forget.
But, yes, growing up (as an individual and as a society) is a hard process. After all, life itself is a complex experience.
@Menicholas
Parents, no matter how incompetent, are responsible for the survival of their young. Recourse to all sorts of lies is commonplace. This one about (C)AGW is a rather “white lie” compared to many others.
Dear Pamela,
I agree that, so some degree, this is true. If the teachers do not teach the l1es about CO2 and climate they will likely lose their jobs. And yet… I ask myself: “Would I stand up in front of a classroom and at best tell my students things of which I had no idea of their truth or falsity (reckless abuse by lying) at worst, deliberately present as fact what I know to be mere, unsupported, conjecture?”
There are degrees of culpability, but, each one of us has personal responsibility.
The main culprits: the Enviroprofiteers (windmill promoters, mainly). They are the ultimate source of the abuse of these school children.
With great respect for all good teachers and the hard work they put in trying to teach our children science facts,
Janice
Yes, they are. Real science teachers would resist such indoctrination.
Well do I recall the anti-nuclear indoctrination of school kids in the 1980s, enthusiastically embraced by teachers.
Then what would you call them?
…..principals, accomplices, accessories, aiders, abettors, and conspirators
Pamela,
I see comments above that attribute climate change indoctrination to Common Core. I have taken only a cursory look at CC, and it seemed to me innocuous, even vague. I know you have done significant work with Oregon’s implementation. What is your take on what it actually says about climate science?
Common Core States Standards and NextGeneration Science Standards are two different entities. The former has no mention of AGW in it. The latter is fairly steeped in it. I support the CCSS and the assessments designed to monitor student achievement at this more rigorous level. I do not support the Science standards.
Here are some resources you can use to read the two separate sets of standards, and take a look at the assessments being used. I have also included a link to the old early 1900’s authentic assessment that is quite similar to the rigor of the new assessments. Most states had a version of this long and rigorous test that took many days to complete. Having compared the contents of this old test with both the CCSS and the related assessments, it is clear that the new CCSS and the assessments share much in common with this old test. To be clear, don’t get me started on a discussion about CCSS and the assessments. These standards and the two assessment versions are far superior to the low hanging fruit our separate states were picking.
As for the NextGeneration Science standards, what a pile of garbage not even a pig would eat. Granted there are some whole unblemished highlights, but the rotten fruit contaminates the entire thing.
http://www.corestandards.org/
http://www.nextgenscience.org/
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/
http://parcc.pearson.com/
http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
Pamela, Thanks.
Unfortunately, pupils tend to trust their teachers.How do we inject some kind of personal responsibility into teachers? They are obliged to teach what they are told to teach – Pamela, please tell me that I am wrong.
George,
As noted above, thirteen states and the District of Columbia have now signed on to Common Core’s Next Generation of Science Standards. The new guidelines are packed with global warming-speak CACCA gobbledygook.
From the Wall Street Journal (via BizNews):
While publicly billed as the result of a state-led process, the new science standards rely on a framework developed by the Washington, D.C.-based National Research Council. That is the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences that works closely with the federal government on most scientific matters.
All of the National Research Council’s work around global warming proceeds from the initial premise of its 2011 report, “America’s Climate Choices” which states that “climate change is already occurring, is based largely on human activities, and is supported by multiple lines of scientific evidence.” From the council’s perspective, the science of climate change has already been settled. Not surprisingly, global climate change is one of the disciplinary core ideas embedded in the Next Generation of Science Standards, making it required learning for students in grade, middle and high school.
From Fox News:
James Taylor, a senior fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute, said the Common Core guidelines present a one-sided argument as fact without providing necessary context.
“From kindergarten to high school graduation, they are pushing one side of the scientific discussion…They’re pushing an alarmist agenda that says humans are the major cause of global warming.”
Students are taught by fifth grade that rising temperatures will affect all humans, and by eighth grade, they’re taught that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are a major factor in global warming.
Taylor said the federal government’s attempt to indoctrinate young minds is the kind of overreach that happens when Big Brother takes over.
“Once you take the education decisions out of the hands of local teachers and put them in the hands of activists in the federal government, you have these types of ridiculous statements.”
Sturgis conflates Common Core with NextGeneration Science Standards. Two different entities.
Common Core States Standards do not have any mention of AGW. None. Nada. Nothing. In fact the CCSS bare close resemblance to the 1900’s 8th grade test and the standards that test reflect. Unfortunately, by the 60’s the dumbing down of standards was already full steam ahead. CCSS has reversed that trend and gone back to the early 1900’s.
That said, I agree with him regarding the NGSS. It just irks me that he mixes the two separate issues together making one fugly document smear the other really good one.
Pamela,
Common Core is not “good”. Imposition of federal and state standards on local schools is an affront to liberty in violation of the US constitution.
And in practice, CC has meant and will mean more CACCA.
Sturgis talks out of his hat. It is clear he has not read the CCSS document in its entirety nor studied its correlation with US and state standards as they have changed since 1900. I have. My great grandmother gave the Oregon version of the 1900’s 8th grade test as a principal of a school in rural Oregon. One would do well to ask Sturgis what his credentials are in providing opinions related to standards and testing.
Pamela,
I have elsewhere posted a link to direct quotation from the CC material.
High school grads in 1915 were much better educated than today. Your defense of the nationalized curriculum imposed by statists isn’t surprising, given your vested interest in the present corrupted system which has so undermined our society and constitution since the 1960s.
Loosely related: Prof. Yanis Varoufakis taught at the University of East Anglia and at the University of Texas. Currently he is fully occupied as a Greek finance minister, trying to get more of other people’s money.
The teachers are not the culprits in this situation is correct, the only caveat is that just like scientists who must phrase and couch their research papers in the terminology climate catastrophe apropos or loose their jobs/funding/careers our school teachers are required to foist this common core crap whether they agree with it or not, lest they loose the jobs.
Ahhhhh, the “just following orders” defense. My goodness, how appropriate given the parallels already drawn to Hitler’s Nazi’s.
Sorry but I think the teachers have significant culpability. The consequences of teachers teaching politically expedient lies are just too dreadful.
Mike Smith commented: “Sorry but I think the teachers have significant culpability. The consequences of teachers teaching politically expedient lies are just too dreadful.”
You obviously do not understand teaching curriculum in public schools. It’s mandated, not chosen by the teacher. Some that I have talked with admit they gloss over the AGW agenda but many support it. If a state does not adopt Common Core they jeopardize Federal funding. It’s political. The UN/Agenda21/Socialist cabal is careful not to specifically state funds will be withheld but their actions prove their real intent. This is another one of those instances where “conspiracy theory” is claimed despite all the evidence otherwise. If you read what Common Core espouses you’ll understand it’s not all about learning critical thinking. Much of it is political agenda. Read it.
Let me be clear, and yes I am now shouting.
STOP CONFLATING COMMON CORE STATES STANDARDS WITH NEXTGENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS!!!!!
Conflate or confuse? Strangely enough, “conflate” is synonymous with “fuse”, while “confuse” is synonymous with “to fail to distinguish between”.
I chose the correct word. Sturgis an others lump them together as a fused whole. They are not.
Pamela G says, “STOP CONFLATING COMMON CORE STATES STANDARDS WITH NEXTGENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS!!!!!
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The are quite connected…
http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/Appendix-L_CCSS%20Math%20Connections%2006_03_13.pdf
http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/Appendix%20M%20Connections%20to%20the%20CCSS%20for%20Literacy_061213.pdf
David, did you read your two sources? Here is an excerpt from the second link you provided regarding English Language Arts and the Science Standards:
CCR Reading Anchor #8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
RST.6-8.8: “Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation…”
RST.9-10.8: “Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claim or a recommendation for solving a scientific or technical problem.”
RST.11-12.8: “Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of information.”
I would suggest that this is a good thing to learn and may prove to be the future undoing of the garbage science we have been scrutinizing here on this blog.
To come back to your two links, they only show how they wrote the science standards so that what was being introduced in math or reading, at grade 6 for example, was not being asked of students to apply to a science standard written at grade 3. Your links provide little evidence that CCSS are a climate warming driven agenda based solely on the attempt to build equivalent graded skills between the CCSS math, reading, writing, and speaking skills, and science skills.
It seems that many commenting on this thread should maybe practice some of the CCSS skills.
Pamela Gray
June 10, 2015 at 5:23 pm
It’s a distinction without a difference. Both are bad ideas.
Educators are among the main culprits in formation of any ideological police state.
Green fascist state is being created before our eyes, and educators (teachers) are willing accomplices in this process.
Poor things are being forced to lie under the threat of losing their jobs? It may be a justification of sorts for those who lied under pressure. Count me out.
Agree, Alexander. Because of the teacher unions, the dominance of leftist views in teachers, and the takeover of local education by Big Government the leftist agenda rolls on in our schools.
Hear, hear!
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
If you fail to speak out you are complicit. If things are to change it has to start at the chalkface.
It’s the ‘Blood and the Soil’ thingy.
The UK curriculum for A level seems to be only a composite of all the most alarmist positions with added alarmism and cherry picking thrown in.
Take the Antartic for example (see link below) – only the Antartic peninsula warming is discussed.
An impression is then given that Penguins are being wiped out. By what? Expanding sea ice? Is the land now too far from the sea for the poor blighters to walk?
And regarding sea levels, we are told that, “There is a possibility that sea level rise could be higher than the IPPC estimates suggest”!!!!
You heard it here first – IPCC model induced blind panic is not alarmist enough to be tolerated in British schools. Extra blind panic needed. Add as required. Serve hot.
http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/alevel_5_1.html
I emailed BAS last year advising them to take down a map from their educational resources since it depicted the Antarctic Circle at 56.5°S – 600 nautical miles north of where it should be.
It’s still on their site; poor children, they just won’t know where the Antarctic Circle is:
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/teacher_resources/resources/schoolspack/01nature_pr.pdf
Good for you to try, Billy. Don’t give up!
and in order to pass their exams students will have to regurgitate these lies, one hopes that they pay lipservice to it, and as they walk out of the [exam] room screw up the biased knowledge and throw it in the bin.
There is actually no such thing as a UK curriculum. There is a national curriculum in England which, presentably, comes under the Secretary of State for Education. This particular politician has no say over education in Scotland.Schools in Scotland, and what is taught in them, come under the Cabinet Secretary for Education in the Scottish Government. I do not know what the situation is in Wales and Northern Ireland. But I can tell you that the Scottish Government is also barmy on the issue of climate.
Not teaching. Indoctrination. Really helpful.
Scary stuff.
I live in Belgium – the Flemish part – with my wife and 3 daughters. They also come home from school very thoroughly greenwashed, I’m in a minority of one in regards to the carbon dioxide myth. My girls even came home a while back singing this propaganda song:
remarkable in English. My wife however has seen it all before. She grew up in the Soviet Union, and recoils from the hideous memory of endless political square-bashing on school playgrounds and carnivals, songs and long speeches glorifying the socialist revolution. The relentless aggression and mind-numbing tedium with which their teachers preached and prated a party line which they all grew up to discover was a complete falsehood. Now a similar disillusionment lies in wait for another generation of children.
Very scary Groupthink. Have Europeans learned nothing from the bloody history of the 20th century?
Not a bloody thing. Every generation must be seduced by the sirens of Socialism. Twenty Holocausts worth of victims in the 20th Century. How many this time? My guess is half a billions casualties, including nuclear and post-nuclear sharia law.
Everyone always thinks that they are different. The people pushing this mind control groupthink believe themselves to be the truly enlightened ones that the world has long awaited.
They fail to recognize that everyone who has engaged in such practices has thought the same thing.
Sad but true that each new generation must be inoculated anew against the siren call of socialisms national and international.
Have Americans learned nothing from the bloody history of the 20th century?
George,
Americans didn’t start two world wars or exterminate tens of millions of their neighbors in death and labor camps and government-engineered famines during the 20th century. Europeans did. We did however end the wars, liberate the camps and help bring down the famine-inducing regime.
With a brainwash in our schools, we are in a danger of repeating Europe’s mistakes.
George,
Sadly, many Americans want to ape Europe, despite the debacles and disasters it has suffered since the specter of socialism first haunted that beautiful continent.
Obviously not.
GDK,
It was a rhetorical question, but maybe it’s worse than we thought and they learned the wrong lessons from the horrific religious and ideological wars of 16th through 20th centuries, interrupted by balance of power and imperial wars.
Have Americans learned? The lesson might be, if you need to start a war, keep it on another continent.
Europeans are still every year collecting explosives left by German, Russian, British and American troops. Russians and Ukrainian fight over their border leaving more to clear for becoming generations.
Thank you for sharing that, Phil. So, there ARE songs! (ugh) How distasteful for you and your wife to have to watch this. I take heart from your grim comment, however: truth does win. You and your wife are living proof! Hang in there, dad who is trying very hard, no doubt! Your children, thanks to you, are not fooled, either (or, at LEAST, will inquire into the facts and discover the truth for themselves).
Next step is for kids to rat out their skeptical parents, who are then to lose custody of their children because of child abuse and sent to mental hospitals for reeducation.
From the way these people are rugged up against the cold they could do with a little more global warming.
What’s missing in this video? A diverse group of people. Where are the Muslims, African immigrants, etc that have been swarming into Europe? Didn’t see any in this “lily white” cast.
Good question. But the little blonde girl was a crowd-pleaser, straight out of central casting for “Cabaret”, along with the balding, bespectacled old man, representing peer-reviewed “science”, leading the masses in their clenched-fist salutes, a cross between N@zi and Communist gestures.
Well now its stuck in my head. NOW NOW NOW!
Eric,
If it is true that the “opinion columnist” Catherine Rampell thinks we should look to the example of how German teachers educate children about Climate Change AND if those two paragraphs of hers are true, then I AGREE: we should look AT it of course but not, I repeat, not as an “example” !
Here is a superb “example” of what is actually happening; it is in the you-tube, short video format. Perhaps the German “children” of Emmy-Noether-Schule could ask their teacher to show the video in school, especially to boost their knowledge of their mother tongue.
Here it is children … https://youtu.be/4kib9asbp6s
Latin? perhaps they could talk about the Roman warm period? and what happened when it ended? what was it called? dark ages?
+1
Along with the Voelkerwanderung migration period, aka barbarian invasions by Germanic climate refugees escaping the cold. And Huns and Avars.
The cold periods, like the Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages and LIA, create real climate refugees and attendant wars. Climate change arguably drove the Huns and Avars off the steppes into Europe, forcing the Ostrogoths across the Danube, then increasing cold caused the descents on balmier climes of the Vandals, Visigoths, Lombards, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.
The Dark Ages Cold Period is also called the Migration Cold Period.
The greatest “Threat to Planet Earth” (and those who inhabit it) is those who want to save it.
+1
…and possibly poor editing for grammatical errors. “…ARE those…”. One must have the verb match the plural subject.
The subject is “greatest threat.” It’s and awkward construction though. My red pen would advise the student to reword the whole thing.
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an, not and. I guess I had that coming…l.