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Friday, July 17th, 2015

Senate Rejects Effort To Teach Kids About Climate Change In School

Author:     Emily Atkin
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     Jul 16, 2015 11:59am
 Link: Senate Rejects Effort To Teach Kids About Climate Change In School
Stephan:   The Corporate Theocratic Right, which is to say the dominant portion of the Republican Party has become a threat to humanity. This story, about the Senate Republicans blocking Federal encouragement of Climate Change education is one of many examples illustrating why I say this. We should be teaching children about Climate Change with the best factual information we have. And the instruction should be uniform, the same way math or physics is taught. This subject is only controversial to Deniers. We owe this to these children. They are the ones who are going to live in the world we have created for them, and it is not going to be easy.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) tried to see children were instructed on a fact-based basis about climate change. Senate Republicans blocked it. Credit: Wikipedia

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) tried to see children were instructed on a fact-based basis about climate change. Senate Republicans blocked it.
Credit: Wikipedia

A effort to increase kids’ scientific knowledge of climate change failed in the Senate on Wednesday, after one senator expressed concern that the measure would result in a lot of “wasted paper.” (emphasis added)

Put forth by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), the measure would have created a competitive grant program for public school districts to “develop or improve” climate change education curricula. It was put forward as an amendment to a bill to reform No Child Left Behind, the controversial federal education policy implemented under former President George W. Bush.

Markey argued that the grant program would help equip the next generation to deal with the effects of human-caused climate change, a burden they are likely to bear.

“The children of our country deserve the best scientific education they can get on this topic,” he said. “They are […]

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