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The annual academic competition for high school students is upon us, and this year's theme is "Our Changing Climate," the Alaska Watchman reports.
Students will have to read Linda Hogan's Solar Storms, an eco-feminist novel about the supernatural lives of animals and the environment.
They'll also have to study the economics of climate change.
"Unfortunately, it has devolved into yet another institution bent on indoctrinating kids with woke, climate alarmism, pagan spirituality, and social justice dogma," says the paper, which notes that 40% of this year's themes deal with social issues.
The Academic Decathlon was founded in 1968 by Nazi prison camp survivor Dr. Robert Peterson to help students attain greatness.
It's a multidisciplinary competition, with seven categories: art, economics, literature, math, music, science, and social science.
The 2024-25 theme is "'Our Changing Climate,' and requires students to immerse themselves in radical environmental ideology," writes the Alaska Watchman.
"Hogan's works consistently devalue and deconstruct Judeo-Christian faith and white colonists, while exhibiting a disdain of America's founding and condemnation of traditional masculinity."
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Establishing a Social Enterprise Curriculum
Several British colleges and universities have embraced social entrepreneurship in their curriculum. Pathik Pathak at Southampton have introduced n interdisciplinary module in Social Enterprise, which is open to students of all year groups and across all disciplines.
