LTISD Info

I was sent a message recently from a parent outraged by socialist propaganda being pushed onto students at the Lake Travis High School by The Story of Stuff Project.

The material from The Story of Stuff Project being thrust upon our students was also the topic of a Glen Beck program aired on September 22, 2009.

Isn’t it the purpose of education to simply teach “facts” and then allow the students to extrapolate their own opinions?

Let’s take the debate between Creationism and Evolution as an example. If neither side can agree, then the answer is to teach neither but simply teach the fundamental science principles that no one can argue about.

This same principle applies with regard to the material being distributed by The Story of Stuff Project.

Teach the fundamental’s of critical thought and then allow the student to apply those critical skills to then formulate an opinion on the matter.

Yes, “opinion” is the result since the opinions presented by The Story of Stuff Project are simple that, opinions, unlike a fundamental scientific principle such as water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin