Oakland Schools Judges Green Sacrifices and Awards Prizes to Most Heavily Indoctrinated Green School

“When I was a kid, green to me was the color of one of my crayons." So says Debbie Dunn, who now runs a project to make kids see green not as a favorite color, but as a religion to worship. Look, I like the environment- I was a Boy Scout, I don't litter, I support efficient use of materials and little waste, and I go hiking and fishing and stuff. But as a teacher, who has an aggressive curriculum to teach, I get very pissed off at hearing how my tax money is being used to bribe teachers to instead preach the green religion at innocent students.

The Oakland Press has a glowing story about this called Oakland County schools reap awards for green activities in today's paper. The story is about schools in Oakland County that have adopted a 'green' curriculum and now have their students work on various 'green' projects and compete in a competition, where high priests judge the merits and worth of the sacrifices of young brainwashed students.

Students at Clarkston’s Sashabaw Middle School raised salmon in a tank of water as part of their ‘green’ activities geared to save the planet. They didn't eat the salmon- they just raised them in a sterile environment, tapped on the glass a lot, used up water and food and time and energy on it, and then tossed the fish out when it died and patted themselves on their backs over how 'green' they were.

Youngsters at Harlan Elementary in Birmingham wrote letters to government officials to protest excessive and wasteful packaging of toys, and this made them second-place winner in the competition. They were told what to write by their teachers and provided with one-sided information lacking in critical thinking, and then the teachers dictated letters to the impressionable youths who dutifully wrote them out, signed their name to them, and now can feel good about being 'green.'

One activity that Oakland Schools Superintendent Vicki Markavitch was particularly proud of was the organizing of power police teams. “There is nothing more passionate than a team of 10-year-old power police,” said Markavitch, who was excited about young kids being taught how to organize themselves in groups and then demand that other people turn off lights or turn off equipment, even though they don't own that equipment or run those facilities. Nothing like breeding 'green' thugs at a nice young age.

Maybe it's just me, but looking at the pictures from the event, I'm a little uneasy about all the crazy eyes the adults have. I mean, it's cool to be passionate about the environment and saving trees and clean water and all that, but it's almost like they are preaching a religion or something.