Saturday, May 14, 2005
PETA Propoganda...
...is in our schools. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is a group that is so morally vapid that they compare Kentucky Fried Chicken to the Nazi extermination camps. And they are writing curriculm materials for our schools. This ploy -- of providing curriculum materials -- has been used by left wing groups for years.
I have seen it in environmental stuff before -- kids come to me as an environmental professional for some report they are doing and their head is filled with propoganda instead of actual science.
What really irks me though is that teachers just take these materials at face value instead of genuinely researching the issue prior to teaching on it. Advocacy groups are supposed to produce advocacy materials. But teachers are supposed to be about truth. The link goes easy on the teachers -- I am not so inclined.
I have seen it in environmental stuff before -- kids come to me as an environmental professional for some report they are doing and their head is filled with propoganda instead of actual science.
What really irks me though is that teachers just take these materials at face value instead of genuinely researching the issue prior to teaching on it. Advocacy groups are supposed to produce advocacy materials. But teachers are supposed to be about truth. The link goes easy on the teachers -- I am not so inclined.
