{"id":30587,"date":"2017-04-05T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30587"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:43:37","slug":"freedom-of-speech-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30587","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Of Speech In The Classroom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about freedom of speech in American classrooms. There is a group of Democratic<\/a> Representatives that have decided that it is time to destroy books that disagree with what they believe.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Three senior House Democrats asked U.S. teachers Monday to destroy a\u00a0book written by climate scientists challenging the environmentalist view of global warming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Democrats were responding to a campaign by the conservative Heartland Institute<\/a> copies of the 2015 book, \u201cWhy Climate Scientists Disagree About Global Warming\u201d<\/a> to about 200,000 science teachers. Democratic Reps. Bobby Scott of the Committee on Education, Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva<\/a> of the Committee on Natural Resources<\/a>, and Eddie Bernice Johnson<\/a> of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology<\/a> all\u00a0issued a statement<\/a> telling teachers to trash the book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPublic school classrooms are no place for anti-science propaganda, and I encourage every teacher to toss these materials in the recycling bin,\u201d Scott\u00a0said.\u00a0\u201cIf the Heartland Institute and other climate deniers want to push a false agenda on global warming, our nation\u2019s schools are an inappropriate place to drive that agenda.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book\u2019s three authors all hold doctorates and taught climate or related science at the university level. The book was written by former Arizona State University<\/a> climatologist Dr. Craig D. Idso<\/a>, James Cook University<\/a> marine geology and paleontology professor\u00a0Robert M. Carter<\/a>, and University of Virginia environmental scientist Dr. Fred Singer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would like to know the basis for the Democrat Representatives’ declaration that the authors of this book are anti-science. The authors look pretty well educated in their fields. What is the scientific background of the Representatives?<\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is truly amazing. Eventually Representative Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva of the Committee on Natural Resources decides that the problem of not having agreement on global warming can be placed at the feet of the Koch brothers. I guess everyone needs a target to blame.<\/p>\n

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