Ever wonder why American school kids are so hopelessly ignorant of economics and finance?  Or why they know so little about American history and the truly unique entity that is the United States?

Curious about what American students actually DO all day, since they clearly aren’t learning much about “readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic”?

Well, now you know. 

Reading, writing and . . . global warming?

A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require “climate change” to be among the science topics that all California public school students are taught

The measure, by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, also would mandate that future science textbooks approved for California public schools include climate change

“You can’t have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn’t deal with the science behind climate change,” Simitian said. “This is a phenomenon of global importance and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon.”

The state Senate approved the bill, SB 908, Jan. 30 by a 26-13 vote. It heads now to the state Assembly. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken numerous actions to reduce global warming, but he has yet to weigh in on Simitian’s bill. Other Republicans in the Capitol, however, are not happy about the proposal

Some say the science on global warming isn’t clear, while others worry the bill would inject environmental propaganda into classrooms.

Anyone who has guided a child or children through the politically correct iceflow that is our primary education system over the past 20 years knows full well that the interconnect between PTA, teachers unions and the leftist tilt of our schools’ curricula is no accident, and that it is merely the tip of a large and ominous floating glacier

Individualism, independence, and self-reliance are frowned upon in the classrooms and glossed over or ignored in the curriculum.  Social promotion, Outcomes Based Education, and Zero Tolerance policies just prove the point.  Group identity and group think are encouraged and rewarded both socially and academically.  This move to translate the “science” of global warming into academic gospel is just the latest move in a long campaign of socializing America.  Senator Obama’s UN tax bill, mentioned elsewhere, is yet another

Like a number of the world’s martial arts, the writings of Lenin and Chairman Mao are replete with exhortations to use the enemy’s strength against him.  Our education system is being used in exactly that manner

The West won the Cold War, militarily and economically at least, when the Soviet Union imploded under the weight of its own dogmatic sloth and inefficiency.  But in the arena of ideas and ideology, the struggle continues unabated

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