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Originally Posted by Burninator
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.
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I would have no problem if they discussed the science of it in a science class. The interesting thing is, going back to the original start of this thread, the video wasn't shown in a science class. In addition this is a more politically charged topic than just any science topic. So if you are going to show propaganda explaining one side of such a highly debated issue or science you should be obligated to show an opposing view. This is not some regular science topic as you are trying to make this out to be. Based upon this being shown in history class shows that people are treating this more like a fact and a settled issue instead of like an actual science. If there is one thing that I do know about science is that it is never conclusive and settled.