This is the best argument for home-schooling I’ve seen yet:
Danny belongs to a school club called Kids Against Pollution … For five days, club members car-pooled to the school by 6:45 a.m. and counted the number of cars entering and leaving the parking lot. They held up signs with slogans like “Hop on the Bus, Gus†and “Make a New Plan, Stan.â€
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Most members said they were worried about global warming. Aaron Kohn, 11, said that he had watched the movie “Waterworld,†about a future in which the polar ice caps have melted and most of the planet is underwater, and then researched on the Internet reasons the earth could flood.
When he read about global warming, Aaron said, he got scared.
Psssst, Aaron, it’s a movie, you know, fiction.
The public schools: Turning our youth into wacked-out jackbooted enviro-thugs.
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Can we show this little twerp the movie, “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome”? Wonder what he’d think of that one! Or perhaps “A Brave New World”?
This is the point where the shop classes empty out & the industrial students kick the little enviro-weenies back to AP English Lit or wherever their idiot little club spawned.
At least, that’s what would have happened when I went to school. But then, the heart of the rustbelt in full-on Eighties meltdown mode wasn’t exactly enviro-friendly territory.