Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Senator Inhofe, a steadfast climate skeptic, has raised concerns about “brainwashing” of kids to convince them to worry about climate change.
In his grandchild’s question — ‘Why is it you don’t understand global warming?’— Sen. Jim Inhofe sees ‘brainwashing’
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The senator, speaking last week on the syndicated Eric Metaxas radio show, said his granddaughter once asked him, “Popi, why is it you don’t understand global warming?”
Here’s the full quote:
You know, our kids are being brainwashed? I never forget because I was the first one back in 2002 to tell the truth about the global warming stuff and all of that. And my own granddaughter came home one day and said “Popi — see “I” is for Inhofe, so it’s Momi and Popi, okay? — Popi, why is it you don’t understand global warming?” I did some checking and Eric, the stuff that they teach our kids nowadays, you have to un-brainwash them when they get out.
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The following is the sound track from the show;
https://soundcloud.com/the-eric-metaxas-show/penny-nance-jerry-mollen-senator-inhofe
(Senator Inhofe joins the show around 30 minutes into the sound track)
I have to say I agree with Senator Inhofe. I have seen plenty of examples of children repeating harmful social conditioning – nonsense about not defending yourself against bullies, and of course, lessons about the alleged dangers of “climate change” – saying things like “if you drop any plastic on the ground the animals will die, it has to all go in the recycling”.
For parents, trying to undo this damage is a nightmare. If they push too far, and their child starts disagreeing in public with what is being taught, the child just receives more bullying to conform. But doing nothing is also not an option.
The people who traumatise our children also publicly wonder why so many turn to drugs. It should be obvious. I mean, if authority figures convince a child the world is about to end, that it is all their parent’s fault, that there is nothing they can do to avoid a horrible death, what do you say to those same children, to convince them to do their homework?
Not every teacher is participating in this harmful brainwashing – according to a recent study, many teachers are courageously risking their careers and livelihoods to try to lead the children in their charge towards a more balanced view of the world.
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I’ve noticed the same in various young kids I know and talk with. It is worse than criminal to brainwash 5 year olds.
Brainwashing at school from the UN? Check this out!
Agenda 21 has entered the education system in my country.
I came across the curriculum when browsing my governments education website. It is headed “Environmental Sustainability, Education for Sustainability”.
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/assessment/view-detailed.do?standardNumber=90812
If one searches just a little you will find the source texts include the Brundtland Report and UN Agenda 21.
This includes global warming but takes it back to the nth degree with the doctrine of “Sustainability”, which believe me does not mean financial sustainability in any shape or form.
Read my blog at
https://thedemiseofchristchurch.com/2013/03/13/are-we-experiencing-a-communist-infiltration-sponsored-by-the-united-nations/
Will blow your mind. Parents do not know about this, no one voted it in and there was no publicity or public debate. It just appeared as far as I know.
Check out this exemplar and you will get what I mean.
https://thedemiseofchristchurch.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/exemplar-3-2008-exam.pdf
Check out your country’s education website. Search for the key words “sustainability”, “Agenda 21” or “Our Common Future” aka “The Brundtland Report”
This is where the real brainwashing is in full swing!
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
yeah – people should stop all the antics with snowballs to convince people there’s no problem…
What Problem, Griff? There are children leaving school this year who will not have experienced any significant ‘global warming’ in their life-time. OK, climate changes, always has, and over time it may be that it’s warmer (somewhere), just as, over time, it may get to be colder (somewhere). In the real world it is pretty well impossible for anyone just going from life experience to say whether the climate is better or worse, warmer or colder, but on balance, warmer is better.
So, I ask you once again, what problem?
I deprogrammed my two kids as soon as they mentioned climate change.
They’re still skeptics today and grown up.
Or antics such as stopping the air conditioning working in the room so that everybody is boiling hot when you tell them the world is going to fry.
Do you mean those kind of antics Griff?
Hey Griff, did you mean that the IPCC ,a few published reports ago stated there would be LESS Snow and more Freezing rain,sleet and plain rain in the winter,when the reality of INCREASED Snowfall and extent has happened instead?
Gee when will you learn to pay attention?
Here ya go Griff…
http://dailybail.com/home/kids-climate-crusade-keeps-rolllin-through-the-courts.html
Griff, there is a reason why the cult of CAGW will not debate/defend CAGW. The entire IPCC scientific basis is incorrect. The IPCC ignored and hide the piles and piles of observations that disprove CAGW.
There is of course a difference between CAGW (Al Gore’s silly propaganda movie) and LAGW (Luke warm global warming where no action is required and which is what occurred before the 18 year ‘pause’ in warming. An end of warming is a paradox.). The warming that has occurred has been high latitude warming which is the same region that has in the past cyclically warmed and cool. The biosphere expands when the planet warms and contracts when it cools.
There is no CAGW problem to solve. There is not even observational support for LAGW. Observations support the assertion that the majority of the warming in the last 50 years is due to solar cycle LSGW changes rather than the increase in atmospheric CO2.
1) Latitudinal temperature paradox (Strike 1)
The latitudinal temperature anomaly paradox is the fact that the latitudinal pattern of warming in the last 50 years does match the pattern of warming that would occur if the recent increase in planetary temperature was caused by the CO2 mechanism.
The amount of CO2 gas forcing is theoretically logarithmically proportional to the increase in atmospheric CO2 times the amount of long wave radiation that is emitted to space prior to the increase. As gases are evenly distributed in the atmosphere the potential for warming due to the increase in atmospheric CO2 should be the same at all latitudes.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.0581.pdf
As the amount of warming is also proportional to amount of long wave radiation that is emitted to space prior to the increase in atmospheric CO2, the greatest amount of warming should have occurred at the equator.
There is in fact almost no warming in the tropical region of the planet. This observational fact supports the assertion that majority of the warming in the last 50 years was not caused by the increase in atmospheric CO2.
http://www.eoearth.org/files/115701_115800/115741/620px-Radiation_balance.jpg
2) The planet cyclically warms and cools with the majority of the temperature change occurring at high latitudes. The cyclic warming and cooling correlate with solar cycle changes which provides support the for the assertion that the solar cyclic changes caused the change rather than the increase in atmospheric CO2 (Strike 2)
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/davis-and-taylor-wuwt-submission.pdf
Greenland ice temperature, last 11,000 years determined from ice core analysis, Richard Alley’s paper. William: As this graph indicates the Greenland Ice data shows that have been 9 warming and cooling periods in the last 11,000 years.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif
Will,
You missed something in your presentation. You forgot to splice onto the end of your record, the current temperature measurements and current rise in CO2 levels. For CO2 your chart stops at around 280ppm but current levels are just over 400ppm. And your temperature stops at the level below average when the Cool-Aid drinkers have already adjusted the current measured temperature anomaly to +1.2C.
It’s OK though just grab a cup of Cool-Aid and splice away
“yeah – people should stop all the antics with air-conditioners to convince Congress there is problem…”
(Fixed it for ya”.)
How about antics with plastic bottles and electric fires?
My friend came to stay with me at the weekend, and she brought her two kids. One is 6 and the other is 8. They told me that their primary school is running classes on how to stop global warming. It sounded like something out of ‘No Pressure’.
My kids are not brainwashed but they see it in school and ask the right questions so far, so far! A lot of kids don’t know ANYTHING different. in Indiana. I am sorry to say!.
My next door neighbour is a primary school teacher. She has to toe the “party line” regarding “climate change” but tries to introduce proper scientific methodology into her teaching, although with little success regarding climate due to the prevailing CAGW meme current in the British educational system at present.
What is she supposed to do?
Lose her job?
That depends. If she’s okay with just introducing proper scientific metholdology and hoping for the best, at least she’s doing that. It depends on how much one can take playing ball with people who are out to destroy people’s lives and make them miserable. It’s a very individual thing.
Tell her she is doing what she can. I’m familiar with Britain, they are downright authoritarian when it comes to school curricula, so I sympathise with your friend’s predicament. Teaching proper scientific methodology is a lot better than nothing – with a solid understanding in evidence based science, the kids will eventually see through climate lies for themselves.
goebbels probably had the same exact rationale
what is she supposed to do, sacrifice her integrity for a dollar?
what is she supposed to do, damage innocent children out of cowardice?
she made the call.
she’s committed a defining act.
she is what she does.
so are we all.
It’s not just a “dollar”. It could be the end of her career.
Cut her some slack, please
no. you cut john wayne gacy some slack. he had a career too. it also involved children.
Yep. There were plenty of “good Germans.” To put Gnomish’s point in other words, what if we had doctors being pressured to treat their patients so they would come down with diabetes? Treat them to health? That could be the end of their careers! Why would they then think their “careers” had any value or honor?
It prompts one to ponder whether ignorance is a better condition for children than to be maliciously misled.
What’s so provocative about inserting a little content on prediction error evaluation as an aside from statistics, or have the expensive measurement systems like satellites and buoy systems gone dark because they don’t follow party line? Of course that is not possible in the U.S. with each 5 minute block of time in the classroom locked and beyond the control of the teacher.
Sadly, schools through most of the West have become ideological madrassas churning out children devoid of critical thinking.
But full of critical theory.
a population of critical thinkers does not work in the globalist plans–please just do what we tell you and obey always.
I think it will take some time, if even possible, to undo the current propaganda campaign on climate change and other green issues. That is no reason not to try.
It is likely that this brainwashing will backfire horribly on the Left in 20 or 30 years, when the kids will be adults facing real problems – economy, jobs, family, etc – and will suddenly notice that the world *didn’t* end, contrarily to the litany of doomsday predictions recited over their childhoods.
Hey, we can see this NOW, as the millennials are clearly incapable of functioning in life. They were coddled and lied to their whole lives, now most of them are dumb as posts.
[Please do not insult any perfectly functional fence post by comparing it to today’s college graduates and tomorrow’s snowflake-enabled students. .mod]
Reply to snarky mod — you seem to interpret the role of “moderator” as it is normally used with nuclear reactors.
[Accurate. And is that a problem? .mod]
Marge: Homer, does this mean… ?
Homer: Starting tomorrow, I’m a nuclear technician.
I don’t see snarky here in what the mod said. It made me chuckle. Both comments. 🙂
Geez, how come I never get this Mod ??
[“Ask not for whom the Mod toils, lest he troll for you. .mod]
Global Warming and all the rest of the whole package of leftist ideology has been taught of thirty years now. Let’s see how it is going.
Is it backfiring horribly on the left?
Is the hard core Left enjoying unprecedented political popularity among the younger demographic?
Just consider the impressive performance of Bernie Sanders. What should have been a fringe candidate became something of a national sensation.
I would say that the Left is doing very well reaping the rewards of their control of the public education system.
“I would say that the Left is doing very well reaping the rewards of their control of the public education system.”
I would agree. We have a delusional ideology within striking distance of gaining control of our lives. We should work hard not to let that happen.
Didn’t Obama say he was going to “fix the economy” back in 2008? Did he really mean ” alter the economy”?
Young people think you can have things both ways.All kinds of electric gadgets with no electricity supply.
And all kinds of green jobs with poor wages.
As my mother said today, when you are young, getting everything for free sounds great, so why think further?
I am old enough to remember some of the “edutainment” that was used to promote environmental “virtue”. Captain Planet and Ferngully seem cute and innocuous when you are little or if you do not think too hard about the intent/signalling of the makers. Kids’ movies and shows seem like they are “safe”, either educational or a kiddie infomercial, but if you look at the ideas being promoted, they are not necessarily what you want your kid to learn/believe/absorb. It is also kind of creepy that these messages of “you gotta save the planet, omg, the rainforest fairies, stop the deforestation NOW!!!” were being shoved at kids who literally could not do ANYTHING about these issues. How exactly is an eight year old supposed to stop clear cutting in the Amazon?
I still know the Captain Planet theme song decades later, so the brainwashing sort of worked. “Gonna take pollution down to zero!”
Wow! So were Captain Planet episodes all about killing bears so they stop doing what they “doo” in the woods?
The progs are prepared for any event. When CAGW doesn’t happen they’ll say it is because they prevented it through their awareness programs and warnings (see their Ozone hole and population bomb/food shortage extinction explanations) and (like seat belts and air bags) there’s Obamacare – that $2500 per family savings is how much more we’d be paying if they hadn’t pass it.
Progs have their propaganda ready for anything and, unfortunately, simpletons are conditioned to believe it.
We did prevent the Ozone hole expanding by successful world wide action…
We did prevent overpopulation/famine by contraception/family planning and the ‘green revolution’.
what, you think the Senator fixed that?
” We did prevent the Ozone hole expanding by successful world wide action…”
Thanks, I needed a laugh.
” We did prevent overpopulation/famine by contraception/family planning and the ‘green revolution’.”
I think you mean more wealth and better health created by capitalism results in a declining birthrate.
As for the “green revolution”, that’s just a bunch of leftys in Lenin hats convincing themselves that buying the over-priced organic stuff in their local deli is helping to solve world hunger. In reality, worldwide crop levels have incresed because of mechanisation, effective chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and rising CO2 levels.
Get in the real world Griff
oh? the ones of today have solved their problems by making them other people’s problems.
obviously this is not an innovation and has been going on for at least a couple thousand years – so what makes you think it can’t go on for another couple thousand?
slavery is sustainable, isn’t it?
especially when the slaves have negotiated their own submission.
When I was a kid it seemed an absolute certainty that the world would end very soon in a nuclear holocaust. Im still a little bitter about being manipulated in a needlessly negative way about something I had no need to worry about.
We are always one minute away from total annihilation from nuclear war.
It will backfire when this thing collapses. At that point we will have a Teachable Moment to end all teachable moments. That’s the great thing about AGW – and even better, the warmists can’t see it coming.
I posted at the Daily Wire where I first saw it and re-posted at the Post :
The solution is to stop voting for Democrats and gain control of the school boards. Teachers must stop teaching far-left propaganda.
As Voltaire said:
Gaining control of the local school boards will not help solve the problem.
The federal Department of Education, State School Boards and State Legislatures are a major source of revenue that County Public School Systems and their employees are highly dependent upon for their existence and if they don’t do and act as they are told then said revenue or revenue requests will be withheld, reduced, terminated or ignored.
Local school boards really have no say-so or control of the selection of Textbooks or other Teaching material and therein is a major problem because the lefty liberal PC “junk science” is in the “books” and Teachers are mandated to “teach” to the book.
It’s gone beyond climate now; the new indoctrination even at the K-2 level is promoting “transgenderism” as a normal, healthy choice. Last I looked it was a psychiatric disorder with a 45% suicide rate!
Add into that the latest “Gender fluid” and we are creating problems for our offspring that will comeback to bite us. Special toilets for the transgenders, parents encouraging gender reassignment from a silly young age, we are all going to hell in a handcart!
Understanding the limits of the scientific domain should be sufficient to dispel any beliefs in scientific prophecies. Unfortunately, the corruption of science progresses with social causes and the establishment of “secular”, quasi-religious churches.
Much like organized religion, start them early.
I could use the same logic and say ‘much like mathematics, start them early’. Because something is organized and/or starting at an early age, doesn’t make it wrong/bad. The problem is not how (being organized) or when (an early age), it is what they are teaching (an unproven theory) that is the problem.
‘Organized religion’ has many benefits, including the fact that if you are not organized you will be unable to obtain, or realize, the benefits that ANY religious teachings offer. In fact, if you are NOT organized for just about ANYTHING you will not realize the benefits. Would people prefer DIS-organized religion? No. I tend to think that ‘organized religion’ is a redundant phrase…’religion’ implies ‘organized’. If it didn’t, then it probably isn’t ‘religion’ and just a hobbled together system of beliefs. True religion, by it’s very nature, and by the way it has been presented and revealed to us, is organized.
Essentially, religion-haters have hijacked the word ‘organized’ to make religion seem like it’s ‘not supposed to be’ organized, as if being organized is dangerous or somehow contains nefarious elements. It doesn’t.
Back to the topic. Teaching children that CAGW is a ‘fact’ is like giving them a fish and telling them that is the only fish you will find in the river worth eating. Teach them how to fish and we’ll have children who will be able to catch the fish we need.
It would be closer to giving them an octopus and telling them it is an iguana, in my opinion.
” the word ‘organized’ to make religion seem like it’s ‘not supposed to be’ organized, as if being organized is dangerous or somehow contains nefarious elements. It doesn’t.”
Radical Islamism is well organised. That bunch are definitely nefarious.
All religion is a medieval attempt to explain the world around us and subjugate the masses with spurious rules about “sin”. We don’t need fairy-tales anymore as we have science to help us understand the world (although we will never understand it all).
@David Smith – “Radical Islamism is well organised. That bunch are definitely nefarious.”
The nefariousness doesn’t come from them being organized, is comes from the ‘radical’. Don’t confound the two unfairly. A useful tool (being ‘organized’) used by bad people (a radical) doesn’t mean the tool is bad.
Religion is not a spurious attempt, it has actually worked to make the world better. A review of history will easily inform anyone of this fact; societies have always improved after adopting the religion revealed for them at that time. Not to be confused with made-up (man-made) religion.
Science still needs to be guided by your conscience. You can’t have one without the other. Science and religion must agree. Religion without science is superstition, science without religion is materialism.
+100
“DUH”, …… all Public School Systems are in essence an “organize religion” ….. that is based in/on the belief that an educated populace is necessary for a well function and productive society.
“For parents, trying to undo this damage is a nightmare. If they push too far, and their child starts disagreeing in public with what is being taught, the child just receives more bullying to conform. But doing nothing is also not an option.”
There are options:
Point out the benefits of warmer climate for reduction in burning oil or gas for heating, benefits of increased plant growth and food production not only in the temperate climate zone but further north, thus creating abundance of food to be made available to poor countries of the world.
Point out the benefits of warmer climate for the large proportion of elderly population which may be susceptible to hypothermia.
Point out the fact that CO2 is not harmful but a benign gas that all of us exhale.
Point out the fact that with the increase of CO2 the world is a much ‘greener’ place
Finally suggest that all prediction of the catastrophic warming may actually not happen and if it does it may take many decades and by then the advancement of science and technology may find way of either averting or even reversing it.
vukcevic – I tried to tell that to the Washington State Department of Ecology, regarding their use of the ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ (SCC) as an excuse to impose new CO2 regulations on industries in Washington State, USA. A de-facto back door carbon tax, the Holy Grail (another Python reference, two in one day!) of current Gubnor Jay “I’ll pass a carbon tax on my watch” Inslee:
See: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/carbonlimit.htm
Comments were closed 22 July, and now I cannot open them. However, the gist of my comment was that not enough positive costs of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, regardless of the source were given in their SCC calculations.
It’s about to get pretty expensive to live a modern life in Washington State.
Regards,
MCR
Are you crazy? There is no money or sensation in positive things.
Fortunately my eleven year old has better critical thinking than many adults regarding this subject and many other themes, with very little help from me (my wife is a liberal through and through). I recently met another boy about the same age who’s mother told him we’ll all be under water in a few years even though we are 80m above sea level. You should have seen the smile when I told time otherwise.
Kids know that some adults will lie to them, and the ones that do will do so all the time.
I vividly recall being a school kid, and how easily I took to the notion that I was being fed a bunch of malarkey.
I do not think kids have changed much, if at all.
Kids just need to get both sides of the story. They will figure it out from there.
The problem is they are only getting one side of the story many times.
Fortunately in Canada, while the liberals have bought the TAX the climate debate to death, I have not had feedback that the schools are pushing this yet in schools. I have had my ear to the ground and nothing yet (grade 6). While I have my beliefs, both my wife and I are reserved on persuading (forcefully) any argument while “Kids just need to get both sides of the story” is the best advice – agreed.
Do not get me wrong, I agree that kids in US schools are subjected to attempted brainwashing, and many of them are buying it.
I just do not think they are necessarily permanently indoctrinated.
When the things that are being warned of fail to materialized in their lifetime, they will know the truth.
And they will know they were lied to, and who did it, and many of them will understand why.
“I do not think kids have changed much at all” is right, there is way too much hand wringing over what the kids are being stuffed full of. So long as they get down the reading part and modern technology requires way too much mathematical competence to divert humanity from seeking to understand the “laws of the universe” To the extent that the spark of humanity that insists on knowing does so …. CAGW is doomed.
“Social engineering” now commonly refers to tricking someone into providing access to something which would otherwise be confidential. A convenient redefining of a useful and relevant term.
Kids do not need to be taught both sides of the argument at all , just taught real science and from there they will work out if CAGW is crap or not .
PiperPaul
July 27, 2016 at 3:11 pm
““Social engineering” now commonly refers to tricking someone into providing access to something which would otherwise be confidential. A convenient redefining of a useful and relevant term.”
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Hello PiperPaul.
In my opinion and understanding, in principle you have got it right.
In principle “Social engineering” means engaging “tools”, “methodology”, “knowledge” and ‘teaching” (pedagogy) in an actual technical way to better the society and civic way of life.
The problem is that “social engineering” and coning seem to be similar, when the later has nothing at all to do with teaching and the bettering of society, but more with an extreme exploitation.and victimization.
Yes in my understanding the “social engineering” lately is set to “operate” in a way as you describe it, to accommodate and inspire a new move, a move from a world that basically runs in the concept of ” too many secrets”, a “cold war” mentality,. to a new one, a world that moves in a new direction of no misinformation, relying in a new concept of “no any secrets”…
Think of FOIA, AND WHO IS NO HAPPY AND TRYING NOT TO COMPLY WITH IT, EVEN WHEN THAT IS BASED IN LAW AND IT IS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT.
Teaching based in thick ideology, propaganda and demagogy it simply is misinformation, indoctrination and an extreme and dangerous “brainwashing”………..no teaching at all in reality but an orchestrated conning and a deception.
The world is trying to move on, in a new way, but “man” is still too stiff and stubborn to acknowledge it.
The Als of this world have a lot to hide, more than you and any one else, that is why so much “energy” and struggle put forward by such as to maintain the “cold war” mentality and the misinformation.
It basically threatens their firm and stubborn belief in the absolute power, which actually absolutely corrupts regardless.
cheers
There are two fundamental issues here. Most kids will soon enough figure it out for themselves, so long as they are taught to think for themselves. That happens more around the dinner table than at school, IMO—and both my kids went to one of the best public school systems in the US, and then to Harvard. Sheeple kids won’t. Part of the problem is sheeple parents at the dinner table, part of the problem is poor schooling. That includes Oreskes at Harvard.
and clearly revealing that “climate change” brainwashing is politics (from the usual culprits) –
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3074/text
rather than science and truth –
http://blog.heartland.org/2016/07/the-global-war-against-fossil-fuels/
(might have to buy the book)
Rud – most families these days don’t have a “dinner table” where the family gathers and talks about stuff while the’re eating. People like us who still do family dinners are getting to be anachronisms. This is just one of the ways that society is changing, and I can’t help feeling that it’s not changing for the better. OTOH, people have been saying that for millenia.
It’s about time the truth is spoken. My two children are now adults, when they were coming up I would talk to them about this climate BS, today they don’t swallow the lies.They know how to think for themselves.
congratulations. you were a parent who did it right.
and by way of contrast- anybody whose kid did not turn out as yours did are the result of failed parents.
parents with excuses, lazy parents, stupid parents – and how do i know this?
because if you can do it, so can anybody else.
and if they didn’t – they suck.
Thanks very much!! 👍🏻😬
“I have seen plenty of examples of children repeating harmful social conditioning – nonsense about not defending yourself against bullies”
Been ‘processed’ through that one, and I would say it sucks for worse than any climate change dogma. Fact is, a lot of teachers ARE bullies, and the idea of a regime where no-one can defend themself would seem like nirvana to these scumbags. Basically a form of grooming, rather like that done by pedos, but in this case to ensure that bullying, not sex, can be engaged in with impunity.
It’s time that the proponents of this kind of sick regime are treated the same way as the child sex abusers. They deserve no less. Point out their gravestones to me and, as was done to Mr Savile’s, I will supply the sledgehammer and effort until no memorial remains to their sorry existence.
Many, many years ago my son Mike was taught by a flaming liberal democrat in NJ. She professed that the rebels were always proven to be right. Mike made no points with her when he responded “Like the Confederate states?. Last I heard, she was a legislator in Jersey. And now we choose between Hillary and Trump. God save the United States.
Thirty years ago, a question was posed. The children were getting a horrible education, light on facts across the board, heavy on leftist politics and ideology. The question was “How will these kids be able to tell that their own children are getting a terrible education?” It only took a generation.
It’s no coincidence that Barry’s good buddy and probable ghostwriter Mr. Ayres and all his Weather Underground cohort that are still upright and taking nourishment are all firmly ensconced in American academia. Indeed Mr Ayres, murderous traitor though he may be, is considered the leading light in Education policy and through his leadership has succeeded in moving the prime goal of modern American education from instilling the capacity for critical thought to instilling the proper “revolutionary consciousness” in all our young skulls full of mush.
Sadly, we are probably now into our third generation of students who have moved or will move through their entire educational experience without hearing one positive thing about their extraordinary national culture that has enabled every bit of the fantastic life they are still able to enjoy, for at least a brief future interlude.
Luckily for myself. I am an old enough old crock that even my grand children are moving beyond the reach of the American indoctrination machinery. I feel very sorry for young people who have to face the choice of turning their offspring over, although, at this point, they’re mostly all products of that machine themselves and thus have little idea of the evil they are inflicting on their children.
Thanks, Dave W, …… my thought exactly and worth repeating, to wit:
“Sadly, we are probably now into our third generation of students who have moved or will move through their entire educational experience without hearing one positive thing about their extraordinary national culture that has enabled every bit of the fantastic life they are still able to enjoy, for at least a brief future interlude.“
Part of the problem is that the teachers themselves have been indoctrinated also. Some outgrow it but many do not.
The Washington Post had a hissy over this one.
I do notice WAPO doesn’t seem to be adhering to the new journalistic standard (announced earlier this year) of avoiding the word ‘denier’ – especially in reference to Inhofe.
It is up to us, each parent to make sure this does not happen.
I have 3 kids, one 20 one 5 and one 3
The 20 year old, some years ago there was a wee bit of trouble because he disagreed with a teacher in class. I simply told him that it is up to him to learn, and not to be taught.
I still stick by that, question everything assume nothing. Family rule of thumb.
For the many that just hand their kids off to school and dont take an interest in what they are being taught.. this will happen.
My two younger ones dont start school until 7 here in Finland (20 year old started at 4 in Ireland). As such I got to start the education this time. The 5 year old is fluent in English and Finnish with some Irish and Swedish. Not because he’s a genius, but because he learns, he is not taught. I only assist, not direct. It’s more fun for him. We play language games.
As such he is going to school already developed to a certain extend, I will never let the state model my kid on their view of what education is, ever. Look at society, tell me most of the new generations are not mouth breathing morons, they are. Thinking is soo 1820 to these idiots and the funny thing is the less they know the more certain and smug they are and believe they know more.
When they do start school I will be talking to the school to see what they will be taught and if any political ideological or advocacy stuff is afoot, he has to leave the class, I will not stand for programming.
I am more than willing to take it to the courts to make sure this does not happen. I am more than willing to leave the country. Ireland now will start brainwashing kids with this junk.
All insidious, advocacy groups and movements and of course religions always target the young. It is disgusting.
It’s actually mental abuse. How long before a case ends up in court where a parent sues a school for making their child depressed?
Technically it is a form of terrorism, fearism, making kids live in fear in order to push a political ideological or religious agenda.
What is next, getting kids to report of their parents believe, and if not the feds show up and arrest you for “abusing your kids” that is, telling them CAGW is bollocks
“…authority figures convince a child the world is about to end, that it is all their parent’s fault.…”
Who is painting a dark picture of America and the world? It’s in the democrat party platform. Climate change is worse than ISIS – who is really scaring Americans?
BRAVO
you are one in a million.
it may be enough.
Mark-H, I wish there were many more like you! I hope your good sense spreads. I would love to see hundreds like you turn up at every school and keep an eye on them. The propaganda has to stop and it will – with people like you to make it happen. More power to you.
It is absolutely happening and it’s not just climate change every form of social justice as well. The most harmful aspect is that they are making our children guilt ridden, girls take the worst beating because not only do they have to deal with all of the climate/ environmental issues but they also have to question every feeling they have, if they have any traditional feminin feelings they are made to feel like there is something wrong with them. Girls are taught to view masculine behaviors as bad but then are expect take on all the those same behaviors. Girls being more social in nature are pulled every which way and are not able to just be who ever they want to be. The numbers of girls in schools with anxiety problems because of this is staggering.
you are right, but anyone who leaves the future of their kids to some people who actually hate their jobs after working it for 30 years, needs to get their heads checked.
State education is rubbish. State history is almost all entirely fabricated.
Ideological baggage is always brought into classrooms, even unintentionally.
Always be away of what shite these people are putting into your kids heads, and for the love of god keep kids away from soul destroying TV, TV and media are one way programming tools
Mark
The problem is the social pressure that is constantly put on the children create anxiety, counter acting the bs is easy but the social pressure is a whole different issue, my daughter faced these issues and being strong willed found herself in constant battle with teachers and students in almost every class. I told her just to ignore it and win small battles when she could but it became so oppressive to her sense of indiviality that she just couldnt
Fair points marko agree, though if my kids are anything like me.. I am most path of resistance kind of guy, always have been 😀
I never did social pressure, and I still suffer the consequences, which usually means exclusion from echo chambers.
The main reason I lose faith in the average human is the aggressive reaction to different opinions on key issues today, as I said, education produces followers to look for that herd to belong to
Gotta say it, I most times cant even get my 5 year old to agree with me, and I get trolled by the 3 year old.
I say “ohh sweety look at that lovely river” and she says “that’s not a river” and I say “oh really what is it” and she says “its water” as if I am stupid bahahahahahaha
*path of most resistance
What the heck.. oh yeah, bottles of stella Lol
Sitting here drinking and sweating like a 2 dolla whore
Mark
I Have always kind of enjoyed being the thorn in the side type but I am pretty anti social. Kids that aren’t have a much harder time
I like “the path of most resistance” can I borrow it?
Not to mention the way the schools are now policing kids on every mouthful of food they eat, under the rubric of the fictional “obesity epidemic.” Like we don’t have ENOUGH girls with anorexia nervosa?
I used to get annoyed at the rebellious nature of my son, now I realize that its whats necessary for a new generation to survive, i.e. its ingrained. So if your teens are rebelling it shows we are not as doomed as we think 😉
Yes absolutely. The last thing you want is a drone, this is what schools are now producing by the time they adults
or to be more exact, schools produce followers not leaders, conform or pay the price
Peter
Best trait a kid can have
It’s good practice to respond to claims by your kids with “is that true?” You make them think about that
If a child of mine learns nothing else, it will be these four words:
“Truth fears no question.”
The honest and the truthful will either give you a straight answer, or admit they don’t have one to give you. Any other response should set off your BS detector, and make you think “Why is s/he afraid of my question?” It will go a long way towards keeping the propagandists and indoctrinators of the world from getting a hold on your brain.
I’ve seen this first hand when teaching in other people’s classrooms. I wrote a short blog piece about it a couple of years ago.
https://learninglondon.net/2014/03/31/how-not-to-teach-climate-change/
Had a read, that is pretty scary and amounts to indoctrination, that teacher should be arrested