[Public schools] Everyday I get more and more scared to have children.

you having children is indeed a scary proposition

please nullify this concern by castrating yourself
 
Ok, my attention span lasted 2 minutes on the first video. Please summarize the videos.
 
The video is over the top, I'd be annoyed if I saw it in school. The guy narrating it is over the top the other way.
 
Scourge said:
The video is over the top, I'd be annoyed if I saw it in school. The guy narrating it is over the top the other way.
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I think the guy narrating hits the nail on the head in most situations, but that doesn't really matter. The guy narrating doesn't make it into the public schools.

And allow me to mention that these videos are being shown in elementary schools to kids as young as 8 and 9. It's really terrifying, imo.
 
so what? Are you afraid your children will be scared to buy stuff and throw it away? Also, lol at that guys economics indoctrination.
 
no idea what the video is about but my 5th grade jewish teacher made us watch schindlers list (public school)

mind was blown
 
uh where is this being shown? you keep saying it is but haven't linked to where its happening and I don't care to look into it.
 
Icewin said:
Cite where it's being shown in schools.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?_r=2

The New York Times said:
The thick-lined drawings of the Earth, a factory and a house, meant to convey the cycle of human consumption, are straightforward and child-friendly. So are the pictures of dark puffs of factory smoke and an outlined skull and crossbones, representing polluting chemicals floating in the air.

Which is one reason “The Story of Stuff,” a 20-minute video about the effects of human consumption, has become a sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation.

The video is a cheerful but brutal assessment of how much Americans waste, and it has its detractors. But it has been embraced by teachers eager to supplement textbooks that lag behind scientific findings on climate change and pollution. And many children who watch it take it to heart: riding in the car one day with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., Rafael de la Torre Batker, 9, was worried about whether it would be bad for the planet if he got a new set of Legos.

“When driving by a big-box store, you could see he was struggling with it,” his father, David Batker, said. But then Rafael said, “It’s O.K. if I have Legos because I’m going to keep them for a very long time,” Mr. Batker recalled.
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Coming to a school near you.
 
FUCK THIS SHIT

GOD DAMMIT I AM SO ANGRY ABOUT THIS that i'll put my kids in the local private catholic school. I WOULD RATHER HAVE MY CHILDREN SODOMIZED BY PRIESTS than for them to be subjected to this SHIT
 
The video is basically an overly liberal pile of generalized, out of context statistics that says we're using way too many resources, raping the planet, the government serves corporations, etc. etc.

The narrator writes off a lot of shit that he can't. Resource rationing doesn't work for food. Waste is NOT being condensed at a rate high enough to overcome the increase in production, etc. etc. He has points, but I think these subjects merit a lot of discussion, and can't be written off as things with easy solutions or "right" answers.

That said - I don't give a shit whether they show this in public schools. As someone else said - who cares if your kids start to consider the impact of all the shit they throw away.
 
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it only seems over-the-top to americans who have been raised on the laissez faire dogma that led us into global recession
 
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