ok, fair enough to show this thing in a classroom, but if you are going to bring it in as a teacher, you damn well better present other points of view on the issue, as the film itself is very one sided (obviously). teachers using this need to do something with it that will actually encourage some critical thinking on the issue, not just use it to indoctrinate the kids with Mr Gore's views on the topic. a debate is one way to do this, but to have a debate in a high school classroom, the students need to be given both sides of it to work from. you also need to consider if there is a better way to bring the issue up in a classroom, and if so, why are teachers using this film? is it just because it's so well known? yes, global warming is an important issue to have students discussing, but there is more than one way to bring it into the classroom.
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Everyone knows scientists insist on using complex terminology to make it harder for True Christians to refute their claims.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid, for example... sounds impressive, right? But have you ever seen what happens if you put something in acid? It dissolves! If we had all this acid in our cells, we'd all dissolve! So much for the Theory of Evolution, Check MATE! 
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