WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION: MSNBC Celebrates Kids Skipping School For The Climate.

MSNBC touted a group of kids who are skipping school every Friday to protest inaction on climate change in a broadcast Friday.

“In over 500 cities and 75 countries, these students are skipping school and taking to the streets,” host Stephanie Ruhle reported.

After struggling to comprehend a quote the movement is based on, Guthrie gave up and looped in a reporter on the ground. “Help me understand this. What is going on here?” she asked.

“Friday for Future is this idea of students skipping school on Friday to essentially say, ‘Look, why do I need to go to school if I don’t know the future based on the state of the planet?’” Savannah Sellers said. “That’s what these students have been doing for a long time. They have been skipping school.”

Sellers then interviewed three of the young girls at the protest, who spoke passionately about the “sacrifice” they are making for the sake of the planet.

“I’ve been skipping school for 11 weeks now,” 12-year-old Ella said. “And it is a sacrifice that we have to make because we are missing important things, but we realize that if we don’t skip this school, we might not have a future. So we need to.”

Great moments in parenting. I assume many or most of their parents are young enough to have missed the 1970s. Trust me on this: Every day back then, the networks’ evening news shows, filled with segments on crises after crises from global cooling, to overpopulation, to air pollution, in addition to sundry topics like plane hijacks and inflation, basically looked like this 1975 illustration from Crazy magazine, Marvel’s ‘70s-era competitor to Mad.

As Kathy Shaidle wrote a few years ago in a post titled, “Scared America: 8 Crises and Collective Panics of the 1970s,” “That 1975 illustration EXACTLY depicts the inside of my head when I was a kid. Exactly.”