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[theweaselking]

Seattle-area school board surrenders sanity, bans[1] "An Inconvenient Truth" by insisting that an equally credible opposition piece be displayed opposite it.

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven[2] who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD. Duh, I eat poop!"

The requirement to represent another side follows district policy to represent both sides of a controversial issue, board President Ed Barney said.

"What is purported in this movie is, 'This is what is happening. Period. That is fact,' " Barney said.

Students should hear the perspective of global-warming skeptics and then make up their minds, he said. After they do, "if they think driving around in cars is going to kill us all, that's fine, that's their choice."

Asked whether an alternative explanation for evolution should be presented by teachers, Barney said it would be appropriate to tell students that other beliefs exist. "It's only a theory, duh, I eat poop!" he said.

"From what I've seen (of the movie) and what my husband has expressed to me, if (the movie) is going to take the approach of 'bad America, bad America,' I don't think it should be shown at all," Gayle Hardison said. "If you're going to come in and just say America is creating the rotten ruin of the world, I don't think the video should be shown. Facts I don't like are bad and if I don't hear about them, they stop existing! Duh, I eat poop!"

Scientists say that Americans, with about 5 percent of the world's population, emit about 25 percent of the globe-warming gases.

[1]: Yes, bans, since there's no such thing as an equally credible skeptic position.
[2]: "Vagina: It's not a clown car!"

Comments

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

Maybe specify that this is Federal Way school board (a community in the Seattle area, not Seattle proper), rather than the Seattle school board, because the Seattle school board has a rather different brand of stupid.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was writing it as "a school board in the Seattle area", but obviously that's not clear. I'll fix that.

[sylvan.livejournal.com]

Amen to that!

Welcome! To Fantasy Island!

[frith]

Idealizing reality by denying the existence of inconvenient facts is the hallmark of religion. This is my truism and if you say otherwise I will stick my fingers into my ears and sing tonelessly at the top of my voice.

Boss! Boss! The Pain! The Pain!

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a great movie, and not enough people saw it. Al Gore did a very good job of explaining things, it's idiots like these parents that make me believe this movie absolutely NEEDS to be shown in school! I don't understand. Public education is there so you don't have to education you'd damn brat. Even though they don't teach anything you need to know these days.. It's more like a daycare you don't have to pay for. And any time they teach something we really need to know, a parent complains and gets it banned. If you don't want your kid learning what they are teaching, then TEACH THEM YOURSELF! It's their own fucking fault if their kid hears something they didn't want them to. If they want the kid to hear another perspective, then they can tell them their own damn perspective. You are supposed to speak with your kids anyway. URGH!! STUPID PARENTS!! God I hope I never end up like that... *Sigh*

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Poop must be tasty. I'm still not going to try it.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

"FROSTY HARDISON?"

I'm picturing a poorly disguised federal agent.