[Osx-nutters] Nat'l Science Teachers Reje ct Offers for "An Inconvenient Truth"

[Kevin Callahan]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

>
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:36 PM, David Cake wrote:
> Then Exxon's involvement or  or not, the movie is not a proper  
> 'lesson' to be shown in the schools,  unless what you are doing is  
> pushing a "a particular point of view"
>
> 	Actually, Chuck, a large percentage of what passes for education  
> consists of exactly this - if it is correct (and its probably at  
> least as correct as much of the curriculum - more so if you live in  
> Kansas) then its didactic nature isn't always an issue.
> 	Its certainly far more factual than what passes for a lot of  
> public health messages, for example, most of which are presented in  
> a manner than strongly pushes a single point of view.
>
> Yeah -- at my H.S., a private Catholic H.S., we were told just  
> "thinking of kissing your girl" was a vial sin.

like anthrax


>   Meanwhile, our teacher (a Catholic priest), would get up in front  
> of class and apologize for his recent spate of masturbation  
> practice.   No priest ever apologized for whacking our asses with a  
> sawn-off log, though , for a neighbor student's wandering eyes.
>
> That's how I got my education.
>
> K
>
>


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