My kid shut her Rethug Science teacher down today

[DKRC]

She's in 7th grade and he puts down anything to do with global warming. So today when he started on how Gore is all wrong and that we aren't going to broil, my daughter raised her hand and told him "No. We're going to drown first."
He just huffed and changed the subject.

That's my kid. Speakin truth to power at 13.
:evilgrin:

[Cabcere]

1. Right on!

Tell your daughter congrats - good for her! :applause: Wish I'd been that smart at 13. :)

[movonne]

2. Good for her...you did a good job in bringing her up..

[AndyA]

I believe the first thing I'd do is make a call to the school board.

A science teacher going against all the experts and telling kids that it isn't happening is not doing their job. They should be showing Al Gore's film to the kids, discussing what can be done to solve the warming problem, etc.

Make a call and be sure to let other parents know this guy is not teaching their kids science, but is deceiving them.

Congrats on doing a great job raising your kid. We are going to need people like her in a few years, who think for themselves instead of believing everything they're told on the news. I know you must be very proud! :thumbsup:

[caligirl]

7. agree here . what is the mandated curriculum. rubrics I thinlk the teachers call

the points they must learn. so what is the 7th grade science curriculum? How did he vear from it and substitute his (the world is flat mentality)opinion for required rubrics?

[DCKit]

8. Perhaps teaching Creation Theory instead of Evolution as well? n/t

[1monster]

37. The dichotomy of denying global warming on the basis of Creation

Theory is that the Bilbe predicts rising ocean, volcanos, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, etc., as part of what are now referred to as the End Times.

I can't see how they can have it both ways?

[dansolo]

47. But those are "acts of god"

The objections have to do with the assertion that man is the cause of global warming.

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

31. agreed n/t

[maggiegault]

46. I Agree. Expose Him For The Corruptive Cancer That He Is.

He is using the classroom to push his own personal agenda. They call us out for it. We must always call them out for it, too.

[Maat]

3. Good for her!

Congrats on a good job of raising her!

[yourout]

4. Wish I could have seen it.

[Erika]

5. We can't just stick our heads in the sand and hide from the facts

No matter how hard the Bushbots push for it. We have our kids and grandkids to think about.

[lonestarnot]

6. Way to tell 'em doll!

[southerncrone]

9. Out of the mouths of babes........

If you live in a Repug area, it's hard to escape the brainwashing by Repug teachers, they are protected by administration.

Make sure that teacher doesn't "hold this against her" where her grades are concerned. You know the Repugs are spiteful!

:woohoo:

[DKRC]

23. He's not spiteful

She makes straight A's and he likes "her attitude and insightful questions" even if they don't agree.

[grannylib]

10. Give her a high five from me! Way to go. That's exactly the kind of attitude

we need. No more lies. Not from the pols, not from teachers, not from anyone.

[mudesi]

11. Nice to know that Republican teachers are lying to their students

:sarcasm:

[ComerPerro]

12. I've seen the future, I've seen Waterworld. The future is a painful movie

[Bozita]

14. Haven't seen it listed on my digital cable menu in a long time

[ComerPerro]

17. last year, when I lived in a house with four other guys, we had "painful movie" nights

one night we watched Waterworld, Battlefield Earth, Demolition Man, and Robot Jox.

I actually like Demolition Man, its rather good as far as cheesy movies go. But damn...

That night hurt.

No alcohol or other escapes allowed, either. Had to be stone cold sober.

[Solon]

27. I love demolition man...

That movie was INTENDED to be a cheesy movie, I mean, c'mon, you know the whole Taco Bell thing was a joke. The cars though, those were hilarious, especially the "safety feature" of using Styrofoam to save you from impact, I guess so you could suffocate within that shit.

[ComerPerro]

35. me too. It is cheesy, but it is somehow great and quotable

"Its simple, cave man. We will simply wait until Phoenix commits another Murder Death Kill, at which point we will know exactly where he is so we can show up and arrest him"

"Great plan :eyes: "

"He likes your plan, cheif"

[MurrayDelph]

40. Favorite line is when Sandra Bullock tries to join in:

Lenina Huxley: Let's go blow this guy.
John Spartan: Away! Blow this guy *away*!
Lenina Huxley: Whatever.

(ohmigod! I'm in the 700 Club! Quick! Someone give me a straight line!)

[ComerPerro]

41. Looks like he has matched his meat.

[MurrayDelph]

42. Chief, you can take this job, and you can shovel it.

John Spartan: Take this job... and shovel it.
Lenina Huxley: Yeah?
John Spartan: Close enough.

[ComerPerro]

43. John Spartan, you are fined one credit in violation of the verbal morality code

"Thanks alot, you shit-brained, fuck-faced, ball breaking, duck fucking pain in the ass."

[deepthought42]

29. Demolition Man is kinda funny...

but if you want painful, watch Judge Dredd. :scared:

[ComerPerro]

32. we didn't want to go that extreme. Judge Dredd and Battlefield Earth in one evening?

[deepthought42]

34. LMAO! I can see it now...

:popcorn:

:wow:


:nuke:

[ComerPerro]

36. yeah, that's about the sequence right there

[Lint Head]

13. I love it!

I just bought 'Inconvenient Truth' to keep around the house in plain view just in case I need to use visuals for they unread and ignorant Re-Pubic-Rats that show up. :dem:

[Shoelace]

15. our children are smarter than most republicans

with an awareness those on the other side will never experience. Pity for them. Horray for your 13 yr old!!

[man4allcats]

16. The state of educational integrity today is such that the student

must teach the teacher. Thus sayeth the Prophet Isaiah (11:6) "... and a little child shall lead them."

[UrbScotty]

18. Ouch!

:applause:

[The Doctor.]

19. It is both inspiring and disturbing.

Has she developed these opinions based on her own studies?

I tell my 12 year old that he is not allowed to have an opinion until he can defend it. He says Bush is terrible, so I ask him 'why?'. If he doesn't have a good argument, I trash it and tell him, 'you don't know enough to have an opinion... even if I agree with it.'.

He trusts me implicitly, and I believe this is one of the reasons why.

So does she understand the science, or is it a reflection of opinion?


Please understand, I ask this more for clinical purposes than out of criticism. After all, it's hard to criticize that which is essentially 'right'.

If all of our kids are like yours and are taught to think for themselves, then I have absolute faith that the future of humanity is assured.

Thank you for posting this.

-Dr. E

[DKRC]

22. I don't take your questions as criticism since you don't know me

She thinks for herself and makes up her own mind because I've spent her lifetime teaching her how to think, not what to think. I've taught her to do her research, go to the source if possible, before making up her mind. We don't agree on everything, but we discuss everything. She trusts me, but more importantly, she's learning to trust herself.

I'm actually grateful for the science teacher she has this year. They're young, but she & her classmates are learning a good lesson about marshalling their facts and pushing back against willful ignorance no matter where they encounter it. These kids will not be easily led with 1/2 truths and propaganda.

[The Doctor.]

39. It's so refreshing.

I've seen so many children simply 'programmed' by their parents.

Once I was driving through a town in Western New York. At an intersection, standing alone in front of a building was a girl who could not have been quite 15. She was holding a sign that said, 'Planned Parenthood killed (some)million babies last year'.

So I stopped and saw that the building she was in front of had Planned Parenthood offices in it. I looked at her and asked, "And how many lives did they save?"

She gave me a funny look. I said, "You don't know, do you?".

She shook her head, I shook mine, I drove away.

I hope she learned something.


Now that my child thinks for himself (he's the same age as your daughter), I have to prepare him for the vast depths of stupidity in the world. I say, "Don't let this go to your head, but you're already a better thinker than half the adult population.

Thanks for being one of the good ones.

[WillyT]

20. Right On !!! - K & R !!!

Does she post here yet???

:hi:

[DKRC]

25. Not yet, but she checks in with what I'm reading here nt

[Mind_your_head]

21. Good on her for standing up to that 'teacher'

and good on you too DKRC for teaching her about right/wrong when she see's/hears it (AND to speak up about it)!

:thumbsup: to you both :-)

[DKRC]

24. Thanks, all your support will thrill her when she see it in the morning

:hi:

[ruiner4u]

26. how...bouncy...

[corkhead]

28. That's great. I hope she doesn't learn about about another Republick cornerstone: retribution.

[Dinger]

30. Wow!!! That's Awesome!

Please give her my congratulations!:headbang: :patriot:

[Cha]

33. Wonderful!! Props to your

13 year old daughter! Wonder what his agenda is?

All the teachers I know, science and otherwise are going to see Al Gore at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY on April 26th.

[Poiuyt]

38. How can these people be teaching SCIENCE?

[NastyDiaper]

44. I thought the only Repuke teachers were Varsity Coaches...

...who ran detention.

[ourbluenation]

45. Our kids are friggin rock stars. Mine was in a similar situation. check it out...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=585234&mesg_id=585234

shocking that these people are allowed to teach. This gal told my daughters class to be very, very leary of Al Gore - he's making a ton of cash of the 'ol global warming hoax.