Climate Brainwashing in America’s Public Schools

Hammering K-12 school children nonstop about the dangers of climate change in every class, even math, art and gym, is child abuse. Barely one-third of fourth graders can read or do math at grade level, according to the latest national scores, but climate activists are demanding kids hear about global warming in every class. New Jersey mandates it, and now Connecticut is following suit as the school year opens. At New York City, Mayor Adams is requiring every public school participate in Climate Action Day.The climate push is nakedly political, spearheaded in New Jersey by the governor’s wife, first lady Tammy Murphy, a founding member of Vice President Gore’s Climate Reality Project. Lessons link urban heat islands to tree placement inequities, redlining and racism.New York City holds out activist Greta Thunberg as a climate hero and role model, telling kids to “get involved in the global student climate action movement” and “get to know community leaders and register to vote.” Everything short of pre-enrolling kindergarteners in the Democratic Party. Parents should be outraged.Climate change is the left’s religion. The messaging is as heavy-handed as catechism in a religious school.It’s also scary. Children are being told that global warming is killing their favorite animals. At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, first graders are taught that transportation, heating, and raising livestock are “making Earth feel unwell.”The reality is that these children are too young to comprehend the trade-offs of moving to zero carbon immediately. A first grader doesn’t know Mommy can’t afford an electric vehicle — average price $53,000.Children should be taught about the wonders of nature, learning to identify mammals, reptiles, fish and birds, oceans, plants, and deserts. They are too young to address the ethical and economic implications of eliminating fossil fuels.First graders don’t understand the impact on their family’s budget when the Con Ed bill doubles to pay for the shift to wind and solar, which New Yorkers are warned will happen here. America has already reduced emissions of the six most common pollutants by 78 percent since 1970, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Try explaining that to a first grader who doesn’t know percentages and has no frame of reference for comparing the American record with, say, the soaring pollution rates in China and India. These issues are appropriate for high school students, and they should be presented as controversies — with all viewpoints included.Climate education advocates say they’re just teaching “facts” everyone agrees on. Don’t buy it.The scientific community is divided about the urgency of eliminating fossil fuels. A poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University of 400 geologists, climatologists, meteorologists and other scientists found that 41 percent do not believe global warming will cause “significant harm” during our lifetimes. A majority of scientists also disagree with the claim kids hear from teachers that we’re facing a significant increase in severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes.Eliminating fossil fuels on the radical left’s green timetable will clobber ordinary people: costing jobs, raising living costs and weakening America’s position in the world. Yet climate change educators oppose any discussion of the cost of getting to zero. California, New York and Oregon are currently considering mimicking New Jersey’s “every class is a climate class” curriculum. But some states are resisting.Texas state education authorities are urging districts to present the pros and cons of fossil fuels and avoid textbooks that present only one side. That’s smart, considering how many moms and dads there earn a living in carbon-related industries.In Ohio, Republican state lawmakers want to require publicly funded colleges to present all viewpoints on climate change, “encourag(ing) students to reach their own conclusions,” and not to “inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view.”Good luck enforcing that on college campuses. Yet it should be the rule in every public school.Parents: Stand up to the indoctrinators. Ramming the same scary message into your child’s head over and over again in class after class is brainwashing.We live in America, not China.Creators.com

Climate Brainwashing in America’s Public Schools

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