I have this student who lives with her Grandparents...well, actually, she lives with her Mom on Oahu, but stays with her Grandparents on Maui during the week, just so she can come to our school. Grandpa's a nice guy. He's always been supportive of what we do (even me). But it's pretty obvious that he's on the right of most issues. He's the one that got the kid to show up with the Bill O'Reiley children's book...which scared the bejesus out of me.
So we've started doing this quarter-long project on our carbon footprint. The first thing we did was to watch the move An Inconvenient Truth and the kids have to write a one-page reaction paper. So today, the student comes up to me with this huge grin on her face and shows me this huge print out of a web article (the thing was like 40 pages) that refutes everything Al Baby says in the movie.
OK...so I take a quick look at it and jot down the address.
I just finished taking a look at it, and noticed something that was bugging me...the footnotes. There were only 2 resources for this guy's info; one was the site that this article was published on. The other was this nutty, right-wing blog. Not good. So I googled the author...he's a bit of a nutjob himself and the institute he writes for is sponsored by the oil industry.
This is going to be an interesting conversation with the kid tomorrow.
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