Know what most schools are desperate for? Classroom materials. Know what many Americans think their children should be taught to care about? The environment. Know what schools are rejecting because the National Science Teachers Association has a policy against endorsement? Fifty thousand free copies of An Inconvenient Truth.

“I never in a million years thought this would happen,” says David, a well-known environmentalist. “It made no sense to me.”

So David wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post in which she notes, among other things, that the NSTA has accepted contributions from ExxonMobil, Shell and the National Petroleum Institute. The teachers association even distributed a Petroleum Institute video called “You Can’t Be Cool Without Fuel,” which David calls “a shameless pitch for oil dependence.”

Well, it’s also a lesson in how to fit in with the cool crowd, and is Al Gore’s DVD really offering that? Doubtful, as we never heard of anyone in the Environmental Club getting laid. The assholes promoting gas guzzling? They got mad chicks.