Lesson plans telling primary school students to study climate activist Greta Thunberg and spread her message have been found on the NSW Education Department website.
The unapproved material on the official website was aimed at children between years 3 and 5.
The material, in a lesson plan since taken down, asked students to watch and study a Thunberg speech.
‘Read about Greta and the transcript of her speech … What is the key message?’ the lesson plan prompted.
What techniques does Greta use … Can you now state what needs to change and why?’ the plan asked.
The lesson plan asked students to conduct an ‘energy audit’ of their school to find areas where change is needed.
The revelation prompted swift criticism from education researcher Kevin Donnelly who called the material ‘indoctrination’.
‘The great shame is education is no longer about being impartial or objective … it is about indoctrinating students,’ he told The Daily Telegraph.
The lesson plan had a guidebook to go with it telling students that school air-conditioning adds 20,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases every year.
The NSW school system was heavily criticized last year during the so-called Climate Strike for allowing climate activists to indoctrinate impressionable young children.
Thousands of school children truanted school to take part in the Climate Strike street protests.
One father pulled his son out of a state primary school in Bilambil, northern NSW, at the time after he was asked to ‘dress like a hippy’ by his teacher.
Matt Karlos, 38, took his 10-year-old son Max out, saying the teachers were making the kids terrified for the future and scaring them with climate change.
‘The ideologies were in his face all the time,’ Mr. Karlos said.
In September, Alan Jones accused teachers of brainwashing vulnerable children.
The former 2GB radio host pointed to a report which claimed children under the age of 10 were experiencing anxiety from the climate change debate.
‘Young people are going to be concerned, they believe their teachers, they actually think that they’re at school and what they’re being told is true,’ he said.
‘The notion of using children in all of this is scandalous and the politics of climate change has become poisonous.’
In February last year, former NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes warned students and teachers they would be punished if they skipped school to join the climate strike rallies.
‘School children, on school days, should be at school,’ he said at the time.
Greta Thunberg’s Twitter account responded, saying her followers didn’t care.
‘Ok. We hear you. And we don’t care. Your statement belongs in a museum,’ Ms. Thunberg’s Twitter account tweeted.
A spokesman from the NSW Education Department said they would investigate how the Thunberg lesson plans made it onto the official website.
‘This web page was published without approval. We will have the web page taken down and reviewed,’ he said.
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I have inoculated my youngest successfully. Unfortunately, this means that school is less enjoyable.
Orwell was almost right. Ignorance may not be strength, but it sure is tranquility.
Thunberg says this, Thunberg says that. Thunberg is a freak.
Years ago, in the Chicago stockyards, there was a steer, Judas.
Judas had a good life leading the daily parade of cattle to the killing floor. He was useful.
Greta, Judas, whatever.
That’s right start with them early Brainwash them just like Hitler,Stalin Mao and Castro did make Greta Thunberg into some Goddess to be worshiped Maybe the parents should consiter Home or Private Schooling no more Brainwashing by the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons