A Common Core Sci-Fi Eco indoctrination story
Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years ago to Education
Read the whole thing. And ask yourself where this came from in the first place?
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Lets pretend that 238 years after the birth of a great and free nation a tyrant comes along and wants to fundamentally change everything. He takes the rights and freedoms away the founders fought and died for. Please write an essay on how you would respond.
Wonder if that would permitted???
I hope...
Ok, I will suspend the smart ass comments for the moment.
Paintbrushes and various types of paint, such as oils, acrylic, watercolor. I also love charcoal. It's a tactile thing. I tend to get my hands right in the paint if a brush isn't doing it for me. :-)
You make "real" art. Got it. Thx
Hm.. you have a point, however...
Maybe she can do something in fingerpaints...
you often give the finger while you're painting
http://www.xtimports.com/greenstupid/gre...
http://www.xtimports.com/greenstupid/gre... ?
"An official with the school district said the workbook was purchased individually by the classroom teacher, and district funds were not used." So... the administration can simply be passive and complicit with no accountability...they are the enemy but they have a plan for the future. We have met the enemy and he is us...our children...
"When accomplished two incomes will be required to support a family"
Remember that progressives never take only one route to their destination. The "feminist movement" that is now at war with women rather than men, was a major tool to require two incomes to support a family, also.
As in The Great Escape, they dug three tunnels so that if one was discovered, they still had the other two... same with the progressives' attack on America.
"While the story is labeled as a science fiction exercise in reading comprehension,"
You wanna teach kids reading comprehension in a science-fiction setting while teaching them about globular warming... FALLEN FREAKING ANGELS YOU RETARDED KANGAROO FART!
(Someone's slightly kinda pissed-off by this...)
http://www.baenebooks.com/p-137-fallen-a...
"IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST
One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.
That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age?
Stranded in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by Earth's gravity, the "Angels" had no way back to the Space Habs, the last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources ...."
Shove that up your Green ass so you can read it!
(not you, NMA... the baby rapers trying to brainwash those kids).
I've ordered that book, btw, and instantly thought of the passages you had written the other day, with regards to this and several other items I've come across.
To sit back on our hands and do NOTHING is just giving sanction to this evil and insidious indoctrination. Our children's ability to think rationally, to think for themselves is being obliterated! This has to be demolished! This method is evil. Period. The schools have to disengage from the govt teat. Otherwise they, and we, are beholden to their curriculum of stamping out good little drones.
Not as a public service, but out of self-preservation, and a desire not to lose the last few shreds of sanity I have left...
Oh, btw, the entire book can be read at the link; its publisher is Baen Books, and they put it up there to lure people to check out their other works. The also published the Falkenberg's Legion series and 'There Will be War' series I've cited elsewhere.
But I'm glad you ordered it. I have two paperback copies, plus the one on my HD.
"Call in sick, like I did."
He shook his head. "I owe them."
"Who, the University?"
"No, my students. It takes a lot of guts to sign up for a science course these days. To put up with the taunts and harassment. As long as they show up, I'll show up."
"I'm glad I'm staff, not faculty."
"The Dean insists that we add creationism and crystal theory and spiritualism to the curriculum."
"They already have those-—"
"Not as equal time in the physics and chemistry departments."
Sherrine whistled low.
"Yep," Bob said. "The science departments are resisting-—we had a meeting after my class-—but it's a question of marketing and sales. Of putting warm bodies behind desks. We told the Dean that there was no objective evidence for any of that crap. You know what he said?"
The sky was a slate gray; the cloud deck, low and oppressive. Sherrine stared up into the gloom. "No. What?"
"He said that the alleged objectivity of materialist science was an invention of heterosexual, white males, so we shouldn't use that as a basis for judgment."
She looked sharply into his face. For a change, he was not laughing. "What did you tell him?"
"Nothing."
All the fire had done out of him, even the anger. Ominous. She said, "And?"
"I said nothing. It was like I'd been caught explaining something to a door, or a telephone recording. I felt like such a fool.""
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/06717...
- Fallen Angels by Pournelle, Niven and Flynn
The left must get to the kids. They won't rest...
It's impossible for Earth to change that radically from anthropogenic effects, but in KSR's Mars trilogy humans terraform Mars in a few centuries; and that trilogy is hugely popular in the sci-fi world.
KSR?
Taking something from "normal" science and taking it to an extreme may be "normal" sci-fi... but it's NOT SCIENCE FICTION.
When the movie got to the part where Mr Hammond introduces them to the park and says, "Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler... Welcome to Jurassic Park!", and the music swelled, and the camera pulled back to show dinosaurs swimming and browsing in the distance... it took all of my willpower to stop myself from standing in my seat, and shouting at the screen in exultant, gleeful, triumphant *hatred*;
"F*CK YOU!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27M...
It took me decades to understand who I wanted to shout that at. You know who I wanted to shout that at? These people in this article. These people who preach our evilness to our children, who indoctrinate them in impotence, who steal from them the *power* of their visions.
These people.
Nature doesn't find a way... MAN finds a way!
(edit: replaced "joyous" with "triumphant" for accuracy's sake... carry on...)