At the age of
four, my daughter earned her second diploma. When she was two, she graduated
with the highest possible honors from the Toddler Room at her nursery school in
Colorado…….At the graduation ceremony, titled Friends of the Earth, I was
lectured by four and five year olds on the importance of safe energy sources,
mass transportation, and recycling. The recurring mantra was "With
privilege comes responsibility" as in "With the privilege of living
on this planet comes the responsibility to care for it." Of course, Thomas
Jefferson thought that life on this planet was more an inalienable right than a
privilege, but then he had never been to preschool.
I'd heard some of this from my daughter before and had
gotten used to the idea that she needed a little deprogramming from time to
time. But as I listened to the rote repetition of a political agenda from
children not old enough to read, I decided it was time for a word with the
teacher. She wanted to know which specific points in the catechism I found objectionable.
I declined to answer. As environmentalism becomes increasingly like an intrusive
state religion, we dissenters become prickly
about suggestions that we suffer from some kind of aberration.
The
naive environmentalism of my daughter's preschool is a force-fed potpourri of
myth, superstition, and ritual…To Read More…..
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