Posted on Mar 14, 2023
Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools
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Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education.
Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, saying they care about climate change deeply. Some teachers and parents say teaching climate change could help the next generation better confront it, but others want schools to focus on reading, writing and math after test scores plummeted post-pandemic.
Schools across the U.S. have found themselves at the center of a politically charged battle over curriculum and how matters such as gender, sex education and race should be taught — or whether they should be taught at all.
Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, saying they care about climate change deeply. Some teachers and parents say teaching climate change could help the next generation better confront it, but others want schools to focus on reading, writing and math after test scores plummeted post-pandemic.
Schools across the U.S. have found themselves at the center of a politically charged battle over curriculum and how matters such as gender, sex education and race should be taught — or whether they should be taught at all.
Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."In Pennington, New Jersey, wellness teacher Suzanne Horsley aims for age-appropriate lessons on what can be a daunting topic. In her K-2 physical education classes at Toll Gate Grammar School, she plays a game with pretend trees, using bean bags representing carbon to show students that fewer trees leads to higher levels of atmospheric carbon.
In Horsley's lesson plan for teens, students learn how climate change disproportionately impacts low-income communities. They look at air quality maps in areas with higher industrial activity or car traffic.
There is a push for students to feel as though they have some ability to influence their world, Horsley said. "Whether it's conserving water or finding ways to plant more trees or take care of the trees that already exist ... they want to feel empowered.”
..."In Pennington, New Jersey, wellness teacher Suzanne Horsley aims for age-appropriate lessons on what can be a daunting topic. In her K-2 physical education classes at Toll Gate Grammar School, she plays a game with pretend trees, using bean bags representing carbon to show students that fewer trees leads to higher levels of atmospheric carbon.
In Horsley's lesson plan for teens, students learn how climate change disproportionately impacts low-income communities. They look at air quality maps in areas with higher industrial activity or car traffic.
There is a push for students to feel as though they have some ability to influence their world, Horsley said. "Whether it's conserving water or finding ways to plant more trees or take care of the trees that already exist ... they want to feel empowered.”
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Wow! Talk about indoctrination. The first thing I was taught in Climate Change Classes I took, that they physically told the class, was that they are not the experts in science to support climate change. That they use the work and data of other engineers and/or scientists. Then if you know enough to ask them about the information they portray to support their goals they say, “Well what can it hurt if we do all items we are proposing?”.
It’s a laugh “what can it hurt”? You can bankrupt your country as they have over in Europe and other parts of the world that embraced this religion. You will keep the people in developing nations in poverty because the Climate Change policies take their minerals and don’t give them enough energy to improve their lives. I can go on forever, but these two examples are sufficient examples to show how bad current Climate Change Policies are.
It’s a laugh “what can it hurt”? You can bankrupt your country as they have over in Europe and other parts of the world that embraced this religion. You will keep the people in developing nations in poverty because the Climate Change policies take their minerals and don’t give them enough energy to improve their lives. I can go on forever, but these two examples are sufficient examples to show how bad current Climate Change Policies are.
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