Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 25, 2008 1:03:22 PM
This opinion piece in the Boston Globe suggests that public schools should be teaching environmentalism. Actually, they should be teaching math, english, and science...real science, proven science.
On the broadest level, students need to understand the science behind climate change and recognize that although the science continues to become more refined, we can act now with the information we have. Students need to become more familiar with the general strategies we will use to lessen the impacts of climate change. Perhaps most importantly, students need to learn to think creatively about climate change, since innovative solutions will be necessary for one of the most challenging problems of our time.
Instead, the writer of the opinion piece wants our tax dollars spent on teaching our youth science that is "still being refined". What happens when in twenty years there is no global warming; we say "woops", and move on to the next thing?
My son has been getting 9 week crash courses in all kinds of things since entering middle school and on into high school. Yet, he was not taught to spell words correctly. He was taught how to use spell check though.. He was taught what all the funny looking symbols on a calculator are and how to use the calculator.
And then your son tells you about the 20 something teachers stories they shared with their students about their drinking and fighting escapades over the last weekend. Add into the mix the recent wave of
female teachers getting thier rocks off on 15 year boys.
It is already being taught. My son's education is proof.
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