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DonViejo

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 10:04 AM Jun 2014

PA school director wants kids to learn the Tea Party ‘science’ of global warming denial

By Scott Kaufman
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 9:27 EDT

A school director in Pennsylvania is demanding that an environmental science textbook used in high schools be supplemented with a pamphlet about the “true science” of global warming.

Saucon Valley School Director and Tea Party Republican Bryan Eichfeld claimed “there’s a lot of clear propaganda…based on bad science” in the chapter, the point of which “is to teach our students to fear the future and to hate our modern industrial economy.”

He urged his fellow school directors to reject the textbook.

In a letter, Eichfeld claimed that Environmental Science “utterly fails to present the well-founded science of man-made Global warming skeptics,” and urged them to adopt “an attachment to the book that provides students with the excluded scientific evidence and data that challenge the global warming claims made in the book.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/25/pa-school-director-wants-kids-to-learn-the-tea-party-science-of-global-warming-denial/

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PA school director wants kids to learn the Tea Party ‘science’ of global warming denial (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
What's wrong with teaching students to fear the future? Coventina Jun 2014 #1

Coventina

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1. What's wrong with teaching students to fear the future?
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:22 AM
Jun 2014

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

That quote is on our central fountain at our college.

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