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	Re: What would you do to combat this thinking? Posted by Repeat after me: "I'm the boss, applesauce..." on 5/06/08 "Shut your lip, potato chip!" (That's an old jumproping chant.) You're not going to change "her" opinions if the adults in her life are encouraging her unquestioning loyalty to the ignorant cretin of the week. In a couple of years her hormones will go bonkers and she'll discover adolescent rebellion. If she's lucky, she'll develop an uncontrollable crush on the tall, babyfaced president of her school's Ecology Club. Until then, she's intellectually doomed, so accept that and adjust your goals for her accordingly. However, you do need to limit the amount of disruption she causes in your classroom. Give her one opportunity each day to express her opinion, but if she wants to waste everybody's time by arguing repeatedly, remind her that the class has already heard her thoughts on the matter. You can't prevent her from swallowing a lot of AM radio nonsense if that's her family's church, but that doesn't mean that you or the other students in the room have to tolerate a lot of rude, bullheaded, AM radio-style arguing. Let her know, graciously but absolutely, that she Will Not be modeling that sorry behavior in your classroom. I don't know who Glen Beck is either, but fortunately, every radio has an OFF button. While your students do not, YOU have absolute control over how much static your class has to tolerate from a know-it-all ten year old. Let her roll her eyes all she wants to; that's easily ignored, but running her mouth is an entirely different matter. On 4/27/08, cam wrote: > I have a 10 year old girl in one of my science classes who > thinks that the possibility of climate change and global > warming is absurd and idiotic. We've been studying the > atmosphere and the water cycle, and I showed a united > streaming (discovery education) video that in part spoke > about the greenhouse gases and the changes that have > occurred in the last 100 years. She became so agitated and > vocal, that I had to address her concerns. I asked were she > got her information and she answered "Have you ever heard of > Glen Beck?" > Well, no, I've certainly never listened to him (a Rush > Limbaugh type)but I had heard of him, I said. "He's not a > scientist, is he?" I asked and she said no. When I asked > what she based her opinion on (other than what she'd > previously said) she said her evidence was "out there-you > just have to look." Not very scientific, but she is so > opinionated and makes her views VERY CLEAR, that I find it > quite unsettling. No matter what evidence I point to, she is > a nay-sayer- eyes rolling all the while. > We still have some earth day activities planned, and she is > such a distraction! Any ideas? A colleague suggested I > assign a paper or have a pro/con debate on the issue, but > she is the only one who holds these feelings, (and obviously > so does her mother!) Posts on this thread, including this one What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/27/08, by cam. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/27/08, by anon. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/30/08, by Kevin. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/03/08, by BillofSC. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/03/08, by Joseph Stevens. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/04/08, by Darwin. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/04/08, by tamagosan. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Bill of SC. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Kevin. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Joseph . Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by anon. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by also anon. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/06/08, by Repeat after me: "I'm the boss, applesauce...". Re: To "repeat after me...", 5/07/08, by cam. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/07/08, by Darwin. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/08/08, by cam. Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/08/08, by Waski_the_Squirrel.

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