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Originally Posted by llama64
It's definetly not ok to only show one side of a contentious issue. I can't believe that the movie is even allowed to be shown in schools except as an example of a political movie.
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Originally Posted by Rockin' Flames
How do schools do this all the time?
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When do schools (post secondary aside, as this thread is concerning a high school) show both sides of things concerning science? Honestly. Unless we are talking about some of the advanced theories in Physics which we have yet to find an explanation for, I don't rememeber getting both sides of things. Typically schools are pretty slow in getting the topics that they are teaching. They teach the science that is popular and relevant in the scientific community.
This whole "teach both sides and they can decide for themselves" talk doesn't work a lot of the time for science. There is a reason that schools don't teach both sides of the science concerning evolution versus creationism. Science is not opinion. High school kids are hardly capable of determining which research is relevant and worthy enough to consider. That work needs to be done by someone else and then passed down to the school level.
I don't really see the harm in showing Al Gore's movie to high school students. What's the worse that could happen? Students could come aware of the environment and take steps in their own lives to lessen the impact? Al Gore isn't telling them to lock themselves to oil drills or change their name to Whisper and go be one with nature. He is promoting awareness of the environment. And if someone of the kids can take that away after watching the movie I see nothing wrong with that.