Plastics Industry Edited California Textbooks
Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in California edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about plastic shopping bags, interviews and documents show.
The rewritten textbooks and teachers’ guides coincided with a public relations and lobbying effort by the chemistry council to fight proposed plastic bag bans throughout the country. But despite the positive message, activists say there is no debate: Plastic bags kill marine animals, leech toxic chemicals and take an estimated 1,000 years to decompose in landfills.
The Religious Right in Texas, led by the followers of the late Mel and Norma Gabler, protest any textbooks that come up before the Texas State Board of Education, that don’t fit their religious, anti-environmental, right wing agenda.
(via randomactsofchaos)
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the industry is plain fucking evil, you know theyre trying to hide something as soon as they abuse their political power...
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If I ever have children, I will have to seriously consider homeschooling.
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WHATS THE POINT OF EDUCATION IF WHAT YOU LEARN IS BULLSHIT? ARRRGGH, this is so enraging!!!
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Also, check out this story about high schools lying about labor history.
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This is outrageous.
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fuck textbooks in general. it’s all just whatever the fucking government and companies that pay for them want you to...
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The Religious Right in Texas, led by the followers of the late Mel and Norma Gabler, protest any textbooks that come up...
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Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in...
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