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Oct 2, 2004
Church's drug program flunks S.F. test / Panel of experts finds Scientology's Narconon lectures outdated, inaccurate — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Sep 1, 2004
Is Scientology in your schools? — The Humanist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robin Jacobs Source:
The Humanist For obvious reasons, the lauding of religious leaders isn’t supposed to be practiced in U.S. public schools, at least not as a class activity. Yet one widely used school program concludes by having students applaud Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The program is called Narconon, and it has notable Scientology links. The state of California is now in the midst of a three-month investigation of the Narconon Drug Prevention and Education program with an eye to possibly barring it from the ...
Aug 25, 2004
Narconon banned from S.F. schools // Anti-drug teachings tied to Scientology called inaccurate — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) An anti-drug program with ties to the Church of Scientology will be barred from San Francisco classrooms because of concerns about its scientific accuracy, city schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said Tuesday. Ackerman's decision followed a review of the Narconon Drug Prevention & Education Program by school health officials, who found that some of its teachings were not "100 percent accurate." "We are going to withhold the opportunity for Narconon to be in our schools," Ackerman said as thousands of students prepared ...
Jul 2, 2004
CALIFORNIA State to evaluate Narconon // Research group tapped to look at anti-drug teachings — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) State schools chief Jack O'Connell has asked a research group known for its rigorous reviews of health curriculum to spend three months evaluating the Narconon anti-drug program, whose classroom instruction has been linked to the Church of Scientology. At a press conference today in East Los Angeles, O'Connell will announce that the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, a public agency in Hayward, will look at what Narconon is teaching thousands of students in its hourlong presentations at dozens of schools each ...
Jun 23, 2004
L.A. schools look hard at Narconon // Scrutiny follows S.F., state review of anti-drug program — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) School district officials in Los Angeles have ordered a review of an anti-drug program whose teachings are linked with the Church of Scientology and are warning teachers that its instruction "is not based on science." Los Angeles is the second district in the state to scrutinize Narconon Drug Prevention and Education, which reaches thousands of students in at least 20 California districts and has provided lectures in schools across the country for two decades. Earlier this month, San Francisco schools Superintendent ...
Jun 17, 2004
Probe of antidrug program ordered / State schools chief says he could bar Narconon teachings — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) California's top educator said Wednesday that he has ordered the state Department of Education to investigate an antidrug program used by schools around the state whose teachings have been linked with the Church of Scientology. State schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell said the investigation could lead to an order barring schools from using the program, called Narconon Drug Prevention and Education. The popular program, based in Hollywood, has provided antidrug instruction in schools around the country for more than two decades. Narconon ...
Jun 14, 2004
Sabotaging drug 'education' in S.F. public schools — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) Pseudoscience and misinformation plague many efforts to keep young people off drugs. These errors destroy our credibility with teens and sabotage drug-abuse prevention immensely. As Nanette Asimov documented in The Chronicle ("What Narconon tells students," June 9) our children hear outrageous ideas as early as the third grade. My personal favorite: Drugs will store in your fat cells forever but niacin and saunas will release their remnants as colored ooze. Programs that rely on lies such as these make me very ...
Jun 10, 2004
Schools put drug program on notice // S.F. tells lecturers linked to Scientology to fix inaccuracies — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) A popular anti-drug program with ties to the Church of Scientology will be ousted after 13 years in the San Francisco schools unless it agrees to stop teaching what the district calls inaccurate and misleading information, Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said Wednesday. The district's ultimatum means that Narconon Drug Prevention & Education has until June 24 to revise parts of its curriculum, said Ackerman, whose health education staff no longer wants the program to make sweeping generalizations about all drugs or claim ...
Jun 9, 2004
Scientology link to public schools / As early as the third grade, students in S.F. and elsewhere are subtly introduced to church's concepts via anti-drug teachings — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) As early as the third grade, students in S.F. and elsewhere are subtly introduced to church's concepts via anti-drug teachings A popular anti-drug program provided free to schools in San Francisco and elsewhere teaches concepts straight out of the Church of Scientology, including medical theories that some addiction experts described as "irresponsible" and "pseudoscience." As a result, students are being introduced to somebeliefs and methods of Scientology without their knowledge. Anyone listening to a classroom talk by Narconon Drug Prevention & ...
Jun 9, 2004
What Narconon tells students — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) Narconon's school program sends students a strong anti-drug message about alcohol, tobacco and marijuana in grades three to 12 and about harder drugs in the upper grades. The program's instructors tell kids that drugs are poison. But here are some other things they tell kids about addiction, which the medical experts interviewed by The Chronicle rejected as not scientifically based: – Drugs – including ecstasy, LSD and marijuana – accumulate indefinitely in body fat, where they cause recurring drug cravings for ...
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