26 States Set to Teach Global Warming Junk Science in Public Schools
Twenty-six states are set to add global warming junk science to the public school curriculum. Inside Climate News reported:
Zitat New national science standards that make the teaching of global warming part of the public school curriculum are slated to be released this month, potentially ending an era in which climate skepticism has been allowed to seep into the nation’s classrooms.
The Next Generation Science Standards were developed by the National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nonprofit Achieve and more than two dozen states. The latest draft recommends that educators teach the evidence for man-made climate change starting as early as elementary school and incorporate it into all science classes, ranging from earth science to chemistry. By eighth grade, students should understand that “human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming),” the standards say.
They’re “revolutionary,” said Mark McCaffrey, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit that defends evolution and climate education and opposes the teaching of religious views as science.
The 26 states that helped write the standards are expected to adopt them. Another 15 or so have indicated they may accept them—meaning climate change instruction could make its way into classrooms in 40-plus states.
I read the article and I could not find a listing of the 26 states.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
My daughter is in middle school. Her science teacher taught the class about the Big Bang theory last week. Before he explained the theory to the class he prefaced his comments with saying that he knew that many of the students believe a different view because of their religious upbringings. He told them that he didn't want to discuss if they were right or wrong. He said that this was just a theory and that if they felt uncomfortable about the lesson they should talk to their parents. He knew it would conflict with some of the Christian students.
My daughter said, "I listened to the theory. I know the answer to give for the test."
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson