Reason 40 To HomeSchool: Kids Won’t Be Brainwashed Eco-Weenies
Send your kids to public schools and they will come home foolishly believing that you are trying to end the world by carrying your groceries in plastic bags. Meanwhile, they pester you to drive them to the mall in the family SUV so they can buy the latest XBox game.
From the AP here via Moonbatery:
Marika Martin is a vegetarian. So is her husband, Charles Gonzalez, who rides his bicycle to work every day in New York City traffic, rain or shine.
The couple cares deeply about the environment, but if you ask their kids, 12-year-old Sinika and 8-year-old Soren, it’s sometimes not deeply enough.
“My hopeless mother is obsessed with plastic bags,” said Soren, a third-grader and huge fan of Al Gore’s global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”
“A lot of plastic can’t be recycled,” chimed in his sister, who’s in the seventh grade. “The turtles can get suffocated and it can go into the water. My dad gave her a cloth bag but she doesn’t use it. Plastic drives me nuts!”
Maybe these precious snowflakes should learn how a landfill works. I don’t think they understand the concept at all.
Say hello to Generation Green. They’re young, well-researched and mad as heck – inspired by an outpouring of movies, TV shows, books, Web sites and “green classes” at school. They’ve been learning how to save the planet since toddlerhood, and they’re taking on their parents to do more, do better.
Some parents think composting toilets are way too big a hassle, but they’re willing to share a flush.
Will someone please tell me how conserving city tap water is supposed to help the environment? And why are environmental kooks so obsessed with poop??? Eh Sheryl “spare a square” Crow?
Debra Weitzel, an environmental educator at Middleton High School in Middleton, Wis., said feedback from parents of her students has been overwhelmingly positive when her assigned home-based “green” projects forces the family to participate.
So they are finally teaching religion in schools. Its worshiping Gaia, but its religion just the same.
By the way, the missing polar ice? Its back.
