The Herald-Sun had a story today about a new middle school in Chatham County that is trying to get Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The school has all the bells and whistles that make environuts warm and fuzzy, but which have absolutely nothing to do with education. Will Solatubes and solar energy panels help Johnny and Jean learn math or history? Only in the mind of an acquisitive bureaucrat, perhaps.
LEED certification may seem an innocuous thing. With all the energy-saving geegaws, why not put in for something that allows the principal to put a neat little plaque in the lobby? Well, there’s a catch, which there always is with the control freaks in the U.S. Green Building Council, which administers the LEED standards. Here’s the ominous proviso:
To qualify, the school must also add educational aspects to its curriculum so students can learn about the new green technologies in their school.
“So students can learn” actually means “so students can be propagandized” by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the radical environmental group that promulgated the LEED standards. You didn’t think some Alynski-like envio group would NOT include mandatory propaganda and brainwashing in schools as a prerequisite for their meaningless certification, did you?
