Pictures of trusting, adorable, impressionable children are here.
Now, I've never met Terri Luneau, and (excluding me) she may be the nicest, most sincere person on the planet.
Still, I feel compelled to ask this question: Should our schools actually pay people to tell our kids bogus stories about ornithological miracles?
A paragraph found here seems to suggest that Terri may have "educated" a significant number of schoolkids about the alleged Arkansas Ivory-bill:
Each session will last about 30-45 minutes, depending on the age group and the level of interest. Scheduling should permit about 15 minutes between groups to insure an orderly transition. Group sizes of 50-100 give the students a chance to interact best, but I can talk to as many as you want at a time.A interesting newspaper story on Terri Luneau and her book is here.
Please don't misinterpret me--I'm not attacking Terri personally. I'm attacking the mis-education of schoolchildren here.
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Perhaps she'll get no takers, given that kids have to focus on the 3-R's in order to pass their standardized tests. Am I Rong? Or maybe Wroodpecker-Science is appropriate. Who cares, I still think it's the Rongpecker.
A short non-fiction section includes age appropriate information about the latest developments in the search for the Ivorybill, including photographs from the actual search that succeeded in documenting the bird's continued survival.
Non-fiction? Succeeded? By what definition?
And somebody should probably tell her it's an Ivory-billed, not an Ivorybill.
From the Kury Lane, Inc. page:
You can now own a copy of the video used to show the world that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is not extinct.
Wow! Proof positive!
As a special bonus, there are some scenes from a re-enactment where moving models of both Pileated and Ivory-billed Woodpeckers were used to see how the two birds would look in flight on a blurry video. The same video camera located at the same distance from the birds and focused just as poorly as in the original video was used to re-enact the scene.
We think you will find the re-enactment scenes quite revealing! (emphasis theirs)
Yes, I have to admit that the re-enactments were quite revealing. They revealed that Cornell didn't have s***.
The same video camera located at the same distance from the birds and focused just as poorly as in the original video was used to re-enact the scene.
This must be a parody.
Disgusting. Who ever said this isn't all about the $$$???
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