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Update #2: the Surrey School Board issued a correction late yesterday stating that: "On Monday, the Curriculum Review Committee recommended the "An Inconvenient Truth" video as an instructional resource, as per the Surrey School District's regular curriculum approval process. When the DVDs are received by the district, they will be distributed to all secondary schools."

"A Notice of Motion from Trustee Heather Stilwell was presented at the Surrey School Board’s public meeting of April 26, 2007.

The Notice of Motion is expected to be voted on at the board’s public board meeting on May 31. The proposed motion says: 'That the school district’s Instructional Resources staff ensure that the resource The Great Global Warming Swindle is made available to schools as a companion resource to An Inconvenient Truth so that students can be provided with the range of perspectives associated with the issue of global warming.'

Stilwell stated yesterday: "I am not sure. I mean I see evidence. I think there is climate change, there's no question about that. Whether what Al Gore says about it is the truth, I have questions." Stilwell goes on the explain that if the documentary is aired, teachers should provide "alternative theories" on climate change.

In a letter to a local paper this weekend, Stilwell states:

"When I read that Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” was being mailed to every high school in B.C., my first reaction was to put forward a motion to my fellow trustees.

I was simply asking for “The Great Global Warming Swindle” or another resources to be provided as balance. I was not denying climate change. Science is not democratic – the idea with the most votes is not necessarily right. Sometimes, as in the past, ‘everybody’ was not right. The lone questioning voice proved to be correct. Galileo’s voice was a lone one, as was Pasteur’s.

Scientific ideas should be debated openly without rancor, name-calling and presumptions of bad intent. Al Gore’s movie is not a provincially approved resource. It has simply been mailed to the schools from an outside organization. Is this how the public wants education to be delivered? Make a film, win an Academy Award and then you get to show your movie to all students?

The public has the right to expect this – no one gets to indoctrinate our students – we must place all perspectives of a scientific issue before them.

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