Maryland students must be “environmentally literate” to earn a high school diploma, reports the Baltimore Sun. No other state has such a requirement.
Under the rule, public schools will be required to work lessons about conservation, smart growth and the health of our natural world into their core subjects like science and social studies.
Districts will develop their own teaching and evaluation plans, which must be approved by the state superintendent. Maryland will not provide more funding for environmental education.
Eco-socialist propaganda will trump science, predicts Red State.
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Richard Nieporent says: June 22, 2011 at 2:34 pmI could have sworn that the teaching of (environmental) religion in public schools violated the First Amendment.
Mike43 says: June 22, 2011 at 2:42 pmI’d still like them to quit finger counting when solving simple math problems. Oh, and to read better.
But that’s just me.
momof4 says: June 22, 2011 at 2:58 pmUnless the law has been repealed,, which I find unlikely, HS grads must also have completed X hours of “community service” (aka mandatory volunteering). Thank heaven we left the state before my kids were affected. Naturally, only PC kinds of service were approved. Homeless shelters, greenie stuff and tutoring the disadvantaged were all fine, provided it was not done under the auspices of a church or synagogue.
Richard Aubrey says: June 22, 2011 at 3:47 pmI guess the question is how many of the kids actually believe that crap.
It will be an interesting progress, from having this stuff shoveled at you with the expectation you’ll believe it, and subsequent thousand-cuts exposures of the green fraud.
I don’t think it will be improving the impression of publik scrkewls in the minds of the unfortunate victims.
Someplace there has to be a Mark Twain plaque:
First God created idiots. That was for practice. Then He created school boards.
I suppose that, if you’re stupid enough, you not only don’t know you’re stupid, you don’t know everybody else knows you’re stupid.
Richard Nieporent says: June 22, 2011 at 3:58 pmUnless the law has been repealed,, which I find unlikely, HS grads must also have completed X hours of “community service” (aka mandatory volunteering). Thank heaven we left the state before my kids were affected.
Perish the thought. They must do 75 hours of community service. I wonder if students who get community service for some minor offense can also count it towards their high school community service requirement.
BB says: June 22, 2011 at 4:33 pmIt’s easy to make fun of this requirement, but the idea that we are all, collectively and individually, responsible for not fouling our nest and for conserving our resources, is not silly. In the past, there have been times when new subjects were introduced to school curriculum because the old subjects were leaving gaps in students’ knowledge, gaps that had practical consequences. Rememebe when Harvard taught pretty much Latin, Greek, and Theology? that gave way to newer studies like Economics, Geology, and Engineering. In reality, good science and social studies classs should already be covering these topics.
Richard Nieporent says: June 22, 2011 at 4:42 pmIn reality, good science and social studies classs should already be covering these topics.
Wrong BB. If they mandated that everyone had to take a course in environmentalism that would at least be defendable. When then mandate that you must work lessons about conservation, smart growth and the health of our natural world into their core subjects like science and social studies, that is called indoctrination.
Geena says: June 22, 2011 at 5:10 pmBB – Montgomery county, MD teaches a unit in 6th grade “science” called Going Green. It is full propoganda and no science (I’m an environmental science/biology teacher and I’m quite adept at telling the difference between the two. I won’t work in MC public middle schools as a science teacher because the curriculum is SO lame. Instead I work in a Catholic school whose middle school science program is nearly what I learned in high school in the 1980′s.
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