School trustee demands 'balance' over Gore movie use
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 08:27AM If teachers are going to use the film An Inconvenient Truth in the classroom, they should also have access to another documentary which challenges the Academy-award winning movie’s premise, says a local school trustee.
Heather Stilwell made the suggestion to her fellow Surrey School Board members Thursday, noting there is a lot of information online arguing that former U.S. vice-president Al Gore’s feature film is a “crock” and based on faulty science.
She said a documentary called The Great Global Warming Swindle, produced by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), counters An Inconvenient Truth and would serve to provide balance for students.
In a motion presented at this week’s public meeting, Stilwell asked that the school district’s instructional resource staff make the BBC film available to schools as a “companion resource to An Inconvenient Truth so that students can be provided with a range of perspectives” about global warming.
“I can’t say ‘don’t use that movie’ because it’s freely available,” Stilwell told The Leader on Wednesday, “but if, in the schools we’re going to be using it, there should be thought to balance.”
She said she began thinking about the issue after it was reported last week copies of An Inconvenient Truth were being being donated to every high school in B.C.
Source: Surrey Leader (British Columbia, Canada).
Reader Comments (6)
The Great Global Warming Swindle was actually produced by Channel 4 - not the BBC
The Surrey School Board has a great history of being on the cutting edge of social progress. These are the same people who took their fight to ban a book about same sex couples parenting all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. Happily, they lost.
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