77 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Every Time I Start My Truck”
Not surprised. All PS teachers rely on the public teat for survival, so almost all are liberals or NDP voters. This means they MUST lie and brainwash young people to keep the faucets filling their pockets running.
Any free thinker, or anyone taught to examine facts and think for themselves, would at least see the dubious link between exhaust in Calgary, and air quality in the Arctic. No, I’m wrong. Teachers must tell them about the AGW fairy that carries the bad pollutants directly to the cutest looking animals to extinguish them. I hate that witch.
Facts are the enemy of the left.
This guy should NOT wait for the parent/teacher interviews. He should go in NOW and go in hard. He should document the situation in writing and he should involve his school board trustee from the start. This sort of thing is pervasive in the school system and talking to the teacher will do absolutely nothing. I went through this when my kids were in high school and they insisted on showing (over and over), Al Gores fantasy, “Inconvenient Truth”. Parents need to unload on the system big time over this sort of indoctrination.
Yeah, I just read my Grade 7’s report on the Icelandic volcano eruption. Apparently the shrinking ice cap due to AGW caused this to happen….(less downward pressure don’cha know…)
What a perfect argument for private schools and merit-based pay.
We need to teach our kids to be skeptical of everything that they are told, including our own opinions. Teach them to research issues thoroughly and then choose a position that they can support. Do not expect your schools to teach them that skill.
Osuamish and Gus:
Home schooling works.
The indoctrination stench originates a lot higher up the food chain than a grade one teacher. You might want to get access to the course outlines and references for her brainwashing efforts and find if teaching the “party line” and beyond is crucial to getting high scores on a teacher’s evaluation by superiors.
Would be mean-spirited to enquire if it’s the left of the spectrum that passes from this mortal realm or the right?
It would sure be nice if the education system concentrated on teaching our children how to think rather then what to think.
Syncro
The Public School System, reason #5 – why the world is run by crazy people.
Media
United Nations
Hollywood
Universities
Public Schools
set you free… I agree. We home-schooled our three children up to grade 10. The only reason that they have all chosen to enter public school at that point is to have a more formal portfolio of evidence for their post secondary applications.
“What a perfect argument for private schools and merit-based pay.”
The unions will never allow it.
I have found one good thing about the one-sided environmentalism taught at schools- it opens up opportunities to discus science, group think and arguments from authority. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that critical thinking and objective analysis are not going to be taught at today’s public schools.
Well, maybe he should take this to the extreme with his little moonbat until he catches on:
1)No trips to the mall, McDonalds, the mountains, the lake, camping, Disneyland, or anywhere else unless you walk or bike. Can’t be burning any of that bad old oil stuff, ya know.
2)Thermostat now stays at 60 degrees (15 C). Chilly? Put on another sweater!
3)Sorry, we’re getting rid of the TV, Playstation 11, and the computer- they use too much electricity.
4)Bedtime when it gets dark- no lights allowed.
5)Baths or showers- only on days that have a ‘t’ in them. And no lollygagging! And no flushing unless you really have to.
6)No more bananas, pineapple, oranges or anything not locally grown. Here, try some of this rabbit Daddy just shot. Now eat your potatoes and cabbage!
I discuss current events with my girls regularly, and I’ve told them to “trust nobody that tells you the world is coming to an end”, and I have shown them how ridiculous doom-sayers from the past sounded. My daughter’s Grade 8 instructor has warned them of the “Drinking Water Crisis” the world is heading for.
get with it, the 3 RRRRRRRRRR.sssss
reduce
recycle
reuse
heh, howabout those blue boxes
school trips to the city dumps to learn garbage.
indoctrination courtesy ur tax dollars
We ran into this at an elementary school in Southeast Saskatoon. I talked to the vice-principal about it, my son was sad that all the polar bears were dying. Of course, their population growth wasn’t mentioned in the screed. I now keep them informed as much as possible, and they’re learning about, in Carl Sagan’s words, the “Fine Art of Bull**** Detection”.
I remember geology class in grade 11, circa 1998. We had just finished watching a “global warming skeptic” movie and were supposed to discuss it. The consensus was that the movie made some good points, but it requires further investigation. Nobody would commit to being either “for” or “against” AGW.
The teacher immediately called us gullible for allowing the movie to cloud the facts. So much for being impartial…
Whatever happened to the good ole days, when a teacher gave a meaningful talk to students about exhaust pipes, it was because the students had stuck a banana in the teachers.
Set You Free, that is one option, yes.
What fries me (among other things) is the amount they get paid for their indoctrination rather than actual teaching. Granted, there are very good teachers whose sole purpose is to teach and then you have morons.
How does that kid get to school, perhaps he should be made to walk, can’t kill a bear. And the next time he wants/needs to go someplace, tell him to walk. When he is absent from school, and the teacher calls, tell him, sorry, can’t drive the car and it is too stormy/cold/far to walk. Got to protect those bears you know. If all parents did this for a week, those kids would learn a few things.
This reminds me that I have to start my car and drive to the store to get milk.
I’d just tell my 6 year old that I likely saved his life because if he had run across the bear when it was alive it would have eaten his face.
…the students had stuck a banana in the teachers [car tailpipe]…
Actually potatoe gave a better seal.
Snagglepuss at 2:56 PM, right on. It’s called critical thinking and if the school can’t inspire it, I guess it’s up to the parents.
Snagglepuss . . . BRILLIANT !!
And then take 50% of the kid’s allowance and “give” it to the WWF . . because everyone knows they protect polar bears.
And get the kid to check and see if the moron pinhead of a teacher drives a car to school.
All these fanatics are teaching young children, is that you can’t trust the word of the representatives. Of society law, or politicians. Than they wonder why no one votes.
If your teacher is a willful liar , than who isn’t?
For one day the lies become manifest after years of the rotten seed planted to metastasize.
What blooms is the fruit of uncivility
JMO
Yep, punish the insolent brat for talking to his Dad about what he is learning in school. In fact, why go to all the trouble – just backhand him and be done with it. Either way, I’m sure that the little boy will be eager to have more chats about school with his parents.
Are you people serious? It’s a 6 year old kid. I’m thinking that an explanation and a little research on the computer would go a lot farther.
LC B, remember the fourth “law of learning” – the law of intensity 😉
Oops, it’s the sixth law; I suppose they should have hit me two more times.
I’m pretty sure that the “intensity” lesson learned will be “Dad is an a-hole”, glasnost.
> 2)Thermostat now stays at 60 degrees (15 C). Chilly? Put on another sweater!
My wife *enjoys* 60 degrees 🙁
I understand where you’re coming from LC, but I don’t interpret Snagglepuss as proposing anything other than a loving discussion at a six-year-old level about all the good things that cars do for us. It’s more likely the teacher’s proposition that might conjure frightening emotions in the child.
“Y2Kyoto: Every Time I Start My Truck A grade school teacher lies.”
Revised:
“Every time a grade school teacher lies,Government sponsored child abuse occurs.”
Thermostat now stays at 60 degrees (15 C).
So pretty soon you’ll be needing the air conditioning on.
Sometimes I wonder if that’s true glasnost. The nostalgia for the joys of corporal punishment in schools from a post a couple of weeks ago kinda dispels the loving discussion feeling of a (small but vocal?) portion of the posters.
Kids look up to their teachers at that 6ish age. They often even have ‘crushes’ on them. IMO, The best way to counter the effect of PC nonsense is to consistently offer them reasonable alternative theories. Discussions with kids around that 5-10 age group is fun because they have such a weird but wondrous view of the world.
Turns out 6 is not too young to start learning the laws of thermodynamics, where electricity comes from, and that sometimes books lie.
By ten you have to start telling them to keep their mouth shut in school so they won’t get in heck with the teacher for yelling “WHAT?!!! THAT’S NOT TRUE!!!” every time she says some physically impossible BS about polar bears or wind and solar. Which turns out to be quite often.
Doesn’t hurt to let them know (in a general sort of way) who Vladimir Lenin was, and that Earth Day is actually Lenin’s birthday. And why that’s important.
The best way to counter the effect of PC nonsense is to consistently offer them reasonable alternative theories.
Completely agree; and it would be nice if more parents could find the time to do so. Discussions with kids around that 5-10 age group is fun because they have such a weird but wondrous view of the world.
Also agree, and many parents could learn so much from them. …corporal punishment in schools …
That is a subject with which I have far too much personal experience. 😉
By ten you have to start telling them to keep their mouth shut in school so they won’t get in heck with the teacher…
It’s usually embarassing when a kid is smarter than the teacher.
Snagglepuss has the right idea, IMO. Kids are not hothouse flowers – the bike ride and the walks would do them good and they would discover things they have never seen before ; especially a six year old! Suddenly people find that their youngsters WANT to go for a walk outside if the TV is OFF, the computer is OFF, and conversation is ON. If a person goes for a walk/bike ride with the little kids the kids start asking questions and discussing things that trouble or puzzle them.
Bonus; if kids walk a few miles a day they are tired and are glad to go to bed. One story has their eyelids drooping. They sleep soundly and wake up happy.
Extra Bonus: walking improves parents health and outlook too. It ensures time is spent together and creates opportunities to give your input into the way they will understand life. The outline Snagglepuss has put up is EXCELLENT for teenagers too, but for different reasons. Teenagers, as the ‘anointed one’ has decreed ‘know things that their dumb, innocent, child like parents ‘don’t know’. When a parent gets the greenie lecture call the bluff and stick to your guns; a big change in attitude will emerge.
Please,
Not all us teachers are on the Gore-aid. As a matter of fact most of us teachers are not. We just have to work with the ones that are. So please ease up on the paint brush!
BTW: Snagglepuss, awesome post! A real teaching moment that all parents should give their kids.
So HOZ, what is our school system doing these days with the six-year-old who has an intellectually nurturing family that offers the child alternatives that contradict the syllabus? How about the ten-year-old that actually is smarter than the teacher (there are many of them)? What are we doing to inspire and develop our brain resources?
A long, long time ago there was a kid’s TV program called Razzle Dazzle, and on that program was one ‘Percy Kidpester’, a dour character devoid of humour and frivolity.
LC Bennett reminds me of Percy Kidpester and should lighten up. :~(
A long, long time ago there was a kid’s TV program…’Percy Kidpester’…
Long time ago, ha. I’m thinking Phineas T Bluster
No offence meant LC.
There are five times more polar bears now than in the 1950s. Talk about a population bomb! Somebody alert Paul Ehrlich!
LC- No offence either. I’m funnin’ ya.
Hereabouts the rural school boards bus kids. Paranoid about liability, a kid who resides beside the school must wait for the bus and may not go home for lunch.
Any sport or activity which involves running is forbidden.
Right across the street/road are the soccer fields…..
Teachers cant tell the truth anymore than a leopard can change his spots. Most teachers are lefties.Lefties live in a magic land where the end justifies the means.The challenge for us is to resist falling to same depths as them.They know they tell lies. We need to start looking for a legal means to deal with the situation.The best I can come up with is Western Independence from the rest of the truth challenged progressives.
Don’t expect the public education system to teach your kids much beyond basic socialization skills to get a job.
If you want them educated you have to do it yourself.
Not surprised. All PS teachers rely on the public teat for survival, so almost all are liberals or NDP voters. This means they MUST lie and brainwash young people to keep the faucets filling their pockets running.
Any free thinker, or anyone taught to examine facts and think for themselves, would at least see the dubious link between exhaust in Calgary, and air quality in the Arctic. No, I’m wrong. Teachers must tell them about the AGW fairy that carries the bad pollutants directly to the cutest looking animals to extinguish them. I hate that witch.
Facts are the enemy of the left.
This guy should NOT wait for the parent/teacher interviews. He should go in NOW and go in hard. He should document the situation in writing and he should involve his school board trustee from the start. This sort of thing is pervasive in the school system and talking to the teacher will do absolutely nothing. I went through this when my kids were in high school and they insisted on showing (over and over), Al Gores fantasy, “Inconvenient Truth”. Parents need to unload on the system big time over this sort of indoctrination.
Yeah, I just read my Grade 7’s report on the Icelandic volcano eruption. Apparently the shrinking ice cap due to AGW caused this to happen….(less downward pressure don’cha know…)
What a perfect argument for private schools and merit-based pay.
We need to teach our kids to be skeptical of everything that they are told, including our own opinions. Teach them to research issues thoroughly and then choose a position that they can support. Do not expect your schools to teach them that skill.
Osuamish and Gus:
Home schooling works.
The indoctrination stench originates a lot higher up the food chain than a grade one teacher. You might want to get access to the course outlines and references for her brainwashing efforts and find if teaching the “party line” and beyond is crucial to getting high scores on a teacher’s evaluation by superiors.
Would be mean-spirited to enquire if it’s the left of the spectrum that passes from this mortal realm or the right?
It would sure be nice if the education system concentrated on teaching our children how to think rather then what to think.
Syncro
The Public School System, reason #5 – why the world is run by crazy people.
Media
United Nations
Hollywood
Universities
Public Schools
set you free… I agree. We home-schooled our three children up to grade 10. The only reason that they have all chosen to enter public school at that point is to have a more formal portfolio of evidence for their post secondary applications.
“What a perfect argument for private schools and merit-based pay.”
The unions will never allow it.
I have found one good thing about the one-sided environmentalism taught at schools- it opens up opportunities to discus science, group think and arguments from authority. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that critical thinking and objective analysis are not going to be taught at today’s public schools.
Well, maybe he should take this to the extreme with his little moonbat until he catches on:
1)No trips to the mall, McDonalds, the mountains, the lake, camping, Disneyland, or anywhere else unless you walk or bike. Can’t be burning any of that bad old oil stuff, ya know.
2)Thermostat now stays at 60 degrees (15 C). Chilly? Put on another sweater!
3)Sorry, we’re getting rid of the TV, Playstation 11, and the computer- they use too much electricity.
4)Bedtime when it gets dark- no lights allowed.
5)Baths or showers- only on days that have a ‘t’ in them. And no lollygagging! And no flushing unless you really have to.
6)No more bananas, pineapple, oranges or anything not locally grown. Here, try some of this rabbit Daddy just shot. Now eat your potatoes and cabbage!
I discuss current events with my girls regularly, and I’ve told them to “trust nobody that tells you the world is coming to an end”, and I have shown them how ridiculous doom-sayers from the past sounded. My daughter’s Grade 8 instructor has warned them of the “Drinking Water Crisis” the world is heading for.
get with it, the 3 RRRRRRRRRR.sssss
reduce
recycle
reuse
heh, howabout those blue boxes
school trips to the city dumps to learn garbage.
indoctrination courtesy ur tax dollars
We ran into this at an elementary school in Southeast Saskatoon. I talked to the vice-principal about it, my son was sad that all the polar bears were dying. Of course, their population growth wasn’t mentioned in the screed. I now keep them informed as much as possible, and they’re learning about, in Carl Sagan’s words, the “Fine Art of Bull**** Detection”.
I remember geology class in grade 11, circa 1998. We had just finished watching a “global warming skeptic” movie and were supposed to discuss it. The consensus was that the movie made some good points, but it requires further investigation. Nobody would commit to being either “for” or “against” AGW.
The teacher immediately called us gullible for allowing the movie to cloud the facts. So much for being impartial…
Whatever happened to the good ole days, when a teacher gave a meaningful talk to students about exhaust pipes, it was because the students had stuck a banana in the teachers.
Set You Free, that is one option, yes.
What fries me (among other things) is the amount they get paid for their indoctrination rather than actual teaching. Granted, there are very good teachers whose sole purpose is to teach and then you have morons.
How does that kid get to school, perhaps he should be made to walk, can’t kill a bear. And the next time he wants/needs to go someplace, tell him to walk. When he is absent from school, and the teacher calls, tell him, sorry, can’t drive the car and it is too stormy/cold/far to walk. Got to protect those bears you know. If all parents did this for a week, those kids would learn a few things.
This reminds me that I have to start my car and drive to the store to get milk.
I’d just tell my 6 year old that I likely saved his life because if he had run across the bear when it was alive it would have eaten his face.
…the students had stuck a banana in the teachers [car tailpipe]…
Actually potatoe gave a better seal.
Snagglepuss at 2:56 PM, right on. It’s called critical thinking and if the school can’t inspire it, I guess it’s up to the parents.
I believe there are credit courses taught, to those who pursue a degree in education, that prepare teachers on how to deal with parents that are non-conformists. How to conduct a successful parent – teacher interview.Sad.
Several years ago I overheard a set of parents discussing an incident where their grade one child thought they were drinking and driving when they opened a can of soda in the car during a family vacation, these parents were miffed and the fact they were both non-drinkers certainly added to their angst.
http://www.khou.com/news/Candy-Gets-Third-Grader-A-Weeks-Detention-93033319.html
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Nursery_confiscated_tots_sandwich?pg=1&sid=e3fdc4d86c97#newscomments
Snagglepuss . . . BRILLIANT !!
And then take 50% of the kid’s allowance and “give” it to the WWF . . because everyone knows they protect polar bears.
And get the kid to check and see if the moron pinhead of a teacher drives a car to school.
All these fanatics are teaching young children, is that you can’t trust the word of the representatives. Of society law, or politicians. Than they wonder why no one votes.
If your teacher is a willful liar , than who isn’t?
For one day the lies become manifest after years of the rotten seed planted to metastasize.
What blooms is the fruit of uncivility
JMO
Yep, punish the insolent brat for talking to his Dad about what he is learning in school. In fact, why go to all the trouble – just backhand him and be done with it. Either way, I’m sure that the little boy will be eager to have more chats about school with his parents.
Are you people serious? It’s a 6 year old kid. I’m thinking that an explanation and a little research on the computer would go a lot farther.
LC B, remember the fourth “law of learning” – the law of intensity 😉
Oops, it’s the sixth law; I suppose they should have hit me two more times.
I’m pretty sure that the “intensity” lesson learned will be “Dad is an a-hole”, glasnost.
> 2)Thermostat now stays at 60 degrees (15 C). Chilly? Put on another sweater!
My wife *enjoys* 60 degrees 🙁
I understand where you’re coming from LC, but I don’t interpret Snagglepuss as proposing anything other than a loving discussion at a six-year-old level about all the good things that cars do for us. It’s more likely the teacher’s proposition that might conjure frightening emotions in the child.
“Y2Kyoto: Every Time I Start My Truck A grade school teacher lies.”
Revised:
“Every time a grade school teacher lies,Government sponsored child abuse occurs.”
Thermostat now stays at 60 degrees (15 C).
So pretty soon you’ll be needing the air conditioning on.
Sometimes I wonder if that’s true glasnost. The nostalgia for the joys of corporal punishment in schools from a post a couple of weeks ago kinda dispels the loving discussion feeling of a (small but vocal?) portion of the posters.
Kids look up to their teachers at that 6ish age. They often even have ‘crushes’ on them. IMO, The best way to counter the effect of PC nonsense is to consistently offer them reasonable alternative theories. Discussions with kids around that 5-10 age group is fun because they have such a weird but wondrous view of the world.
Turns out 6 is not too young to start learning the laws of thermodynamics, where electricity comes from, and that sometimes books lie.
By ten you have to start telling them to keep their mouth shut in school so they won’t get in heck with the teacher for yelling “WHAT?!!! THAT’S NOT TRUE!!!” every time she says some physically impossible BS about polar bears or wind and solar. Which turns out to be quite often.
Doesn’t hurt to let them know (in a general sort of way) who Vladimir Lenin was, and that Earth Day is actually Lenin’s birthday. And why that’s important.
The best way to counter the effect of PC nonsense is to consistently offer them reasonable alternative theories.
Completely agree; and it would be nice if more parents could find the time to do so.
Discussions with kids around that 5-10 age group is fun because they have such a weird but wondrous view of the world.
Also agree, and many parents could learn so much from them.
…corporal punishment in schools …
That is a subject with which I have far too much personal experience. 😉
By ten you have to start telling them to keep their mouth shut in school so they won’t get in heck with the teacher…
It’s usually embarassing when a kid is smarter than the teacher.
Snagglepuss has the right idea, IMO. Kids are not hothouse flowers – the bike ride and the walks would do them good and they would discover things they have never seen before ; especially a six year old! Suddenly people find that their youngsters WANT to go for a walk outside if the TV is OFF, the computer is OFF, and conversation is ON. If a person goes for a walk/bike ride with the little kids the kids start asking questions and discussing things that trouble or puzzle them.
Bonus; if kids walk a few miles a day they are tired and are glad to go to bed. One story has their eyelids drooping. They sleep soundly and wake up happy.
Extra Bonus: walking improves parents health and outlook too. It ensures time is spent together and creates opportunities to give your input into the way they will understand life. The outline Snagglepuss has put up is EXCELLENT for teenagers too, but for different reasons. Teenagers, as the ‘anointed one’ has decreed ‘know things that their dumb, innocent, child like parents ‘don’t know’. When a parent gets the greenie lecture call the bluff and stick to your guns; a big change in attitude will emerge.
Please,
Not all us teachers are on the Gore-aid. As a matter of fact most of us teachers are not. We just have to work with the ones that are. So please ease up on the paint brush!
BTW: Snagglepuss, awesome post! A real teaching moment that all parents should give their kids.
So HOZ, what is our school system doing these days with the six-year-old who has an intellectually nurturing family that offers the child alternatives that contradict the syllabus? How about the ten-year-old that actually is smarter than the teacher (there are many of them)? What are we doing to inspire and develop our brain resources?
A long, long time ago there was a kid’s TV program called Razzle Dazzle, and on that program was one ‘Percy Kidpester’, a dour character devoid of humour and frivolity.
LC Bennett reminds me of Percy Kidpester and should lighten up. :~(
A long, long time ago there was a kid’s TV program…’Percy Kidpester’…
Long time ago, ha. I’m thinking Phineas T Bluster
No offence meant LC.
There are five times more polar bears now than in the 1950s. Talk about a population bomb! Somebody alert Paul Ehrlich!
LC- No offence either. I’m funnin’ ya.
Hereabouts the rural school boards bus kids. Paranoid about liability, a kid who resides beside the school must wait for the bus and may not go home for lunch.
Any sport or activity which involves running is forbidden.
Right across the street/road are the soccer fields…..
Teachers cant tell the truth anymore than a leopard can change his spots. Most teachers are lefties.Lefties live in a magic land where the end justifies the means.The challenge for us is to resist falling to same depths as them.They know they tell lies. We need to start looking for a legal means to deal with the situation.The best I can come up with is Western Independence from the rest of the truth challenged progressives.
Don’t expect the public education system to teach your kids much beyond basic socialization skills to get a job.
If you want them educated you have to do it yourself.