Children Recycling Rubbish, Educational Indoctrination

I thought this was funny. This bunch of children spent hours sorting cardboard and paper and other rubbish into different bins. Then the bin man just tossed it all in together in the truck. Then the bin man claimed that the work the children had done was not a waste of time. Hmmm.

The Headteacher's comments [Yvonne Harris] were more terrifying than funny:

"I'm seething. What is the point in teaching the children about recycling when everything is thrown into the landfill right before then?"
"Recycling is a massive part of our curriculum and it forms a large part of the Government's agenda"
"We're told not to use plastic bags from supermarkets and to cut down on using cars, but then this happens. It's a joke"

Here are my questions:

• Why would a highly-educated teacher believe in the supermarket bag scam?
• How could said Headteacher allow recycling to be a massive part of the educational curriculum in her school?
• Why would she think that a government could have a 'recycling' agenda?

Shame on the Headteacher, the educational authority and the British Government for filling the minds of innocent children with this environmental garbage when they should be learning to read, write and count.

Shame on Kent County Council for not having the honesty to just admit that recycling is, quite often, a waste a time, and nearly always a waste of money. Maybe one day robots will pull apart our waste at very little cost and recycle it for us. Not yet.

Comments

[yonason]

The thing is, if you want to break someone's spirit, give them useless things to do, and let them know they are wasting their time.

In Russia many political prisoners were sent to Siberia where they would do hard labor. In one case some dug out coal and loaded it on a truck. The truck, instead of taking the coal to be shipped to where it was needed, drove a short distance away and dumped it where the workers could see it. Then they had to shovel it back on the truck so it could be dumped back into the hole for the next day's effort. Repeat this often enough and you drive men insane. Training children to do useless things can't possibly be good for their psychological development. In fact, what's being done to them can, without exaggeration, be called downright evil.

[The Optimist]

Yes, particularly if they know it is a waste of time. These children had a cruel lesson in life. No wonder the teacher is so upset, explaining to a bunch of 8 years olds that recycling is still useful even though it is useless...that would drive anyone nuts as children can unfortunately see right through the emperor's clothes.

A bigger concern is the teaching saying it is a 'huge part of the curriculum'. To me that it bordering on professional negligence, given other priorities in learning.

One hopes that they aren't teaching them too much about global warming.

[Dating sites reviews]

Shame on the Headteacher, the educational authority and the British Government for filling the minds of innocent children with this environmental garbage when they should be learning to read, write and count.