Are schools doing enougth to teach kids about the enviroment?

I really need to rent that movie....

 

Kids today don't even do chores in urban homes let along work in gardens. They chose their educations based on the average salary for jobs they are interested in. I wonder how many kids today have ever climbed a tree or eaten a fresh peach off the tree. It's all about the me and nothing about the we of the world.

 

I think that schools should be teaching kids from elementery school onward about the envierment. I saw these stupid people, my age throwing trash on the ground! I was so angry but then, maybe noone taught them about the stupid things they were doing. Children are the future and they're the ones that are going to be left with the terrible enviermental mistakes we made, why not teach them not to make the same mistakes?

 

Over here Pre schooolers get the chance to try out gardening, then get taught about the enviroment a bit in Primary 7, then A ton in high school...

 

I was taught about the environment in Boy Scouts, not in primary school.

would recommend scouting to young people.

 

Very true. Kids today don't understand how uneducated they are. They assume that passing a class means they have learned something, but in reality, the teachers just pass them. Schools aren't doing enough to teach kids about anything, let alone the environment, and the kids only care about getting good grades so that they can make a lot of money. Mine is a soulless generation

 

the public schools do lack in the enviroment department as well as many other departments. this is why i homescool my children. the schools may teach a little but not enough to get the children well informed about things like global warming and how they are going to be able to contribute to the cause. they need to be able to contribute to the cause sonsidering they will be the ones to live in the worst time of it. its already started and we need more people involved in helping this earth survive

 

I think it depends on the school and the teachers you have. I personly don`t want to watch documentations all time or something because I allready know whats going on. You just have to swich on the news then you get informed enough. So I think in the last two months there changed something. But I don`t know whats going on in the media for example in the USA: Maybe you could tell me?

 

What's going on in the US media, you ask? Well, Britney Spears shaved her head. And people are arguing over Anna Nicole Smith's body. There is also talk about whether or not Barack Obama is too black or not black enough. In a few words : the news in the US is completely void of meaning or importance.

Education definitely depends on the teachers. Recently my cousin's entire class failed. They fired the teacher. These kids are in highschool and are at levels much below where they should be. The solution to the problem was to get a teacher who would just pass them with crap grades.

 

In school my teachers told me more about how drugs can ruin a person's life, but they never really told me how polluting the earth can ruin everyone's lives.

 

Our schools are definitely not teaching kids about protecting the environment. I mean these kids are going to face the worst changes. I'll probably be dead when the ice caps melt but these kids will be in their prime.

 

No man, i go to a private school and luckily we have an environmental teacher thats willing to speak out but like at our local university, they barley mention organic farming (the only sustainable form of farming) and they didn't even incorporate ANY mention of it before the last 4 years, a lot of chemical industries have a big stake in universities especially the ag programs

 

Another funny thing i was reading about a parent suing the school board for the teacher showing inconvenient truth, and teh final ruling was human caused global warming could be taught....BUT... an opposing viewpoint had to be shown

What opposition is there to fact?

 

What opposition is there to fact? Sounds like you'll believe anything! Heres some FACT'S> The eco-freaks stopped construction on ALL hydroelectric dams, oil refineries, drilling for oil,new construction for nuclear power plants leaving little choice but to use coal burning C02 bletching power plants thats causing the friggin problem to begin with. Now they want you to pay through nose for gas & energy, WAKE-UP!

 

Well, to be honest with you. Global Warming is being accelerated by man! We have a responsibility to the earth. How about instead of producing green power like we have done with fossil fuels (In large quantities for a large number of people), Why not try decentralised power (smaller amounts for a smaller amout of people).

If we produce power closer to the place of use, then less power will be wasted through resistence and less power needs to be produced.

 

Nobody wants coal burning power plants or oil refineries, nuclear power plants...etc in their back yard (NIMBY) or should we force them to accept it?

 

You know what I saw a loss of in California after deregulation was hydro generated electricity. We had the power plants already in place and producing and when deregulation came into effect. PG&E closed and sold off their pit stations. Our creeks and rivers were providing power until the big boys started playing the game. What could be more environmentally friendly than hydro plants. But they've been left to rust or sold off. We were told deregulation would be the answer to lower costs and more efficient product....guess what it's not always the case. Enron made money and Californians are still paying for their greed.

 

The eco freaks didn't close the hyrdorelectric development in California Enron and deregulation did. I am not that up on what caused the closure of refineries here but I bet if you looked into it it was coporate concerns that benefited from increased revenues. They love to blame the eco people, but it's usually the corporate monied interests that win out in the end. They manipulate the market. The little guy may from time to time stall them, but they usually win in the end, and make it look like the other guy's fault.

 

No, I'm just saying, look at the dutch example...

 

If energy companies can't build new dams,oil refineries,nuclear power plants,how can they compete how do they make a profit? Even if they do make a profit the democrats want to take their profits to invest in alternative energy instead of drilling for oil or buliding new nuclear power plants. Solar,wind,hydrogen only produce a small percentage of our needs,we need more drilling for oil, more oil refineries,new construction of nuclear power plants. As I said the extreme ecofreaks caused this so-called global warming scam by special interest groups to block new construction of hydroelectric dams, oil refineries, nuclear power plants..etc.They are responsible for this and now they want you to pay for their stupidty.