Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone
California’s new high school science textbook….
Politicians attempting to influence school curriculum is not new. So, it’s no surprise that some politician in California finally got around to submitting a proposal to make it mandatory to teach global warming in schools.
State Senator Joe Simitian wants to make sure that only textbooks that preach climate change be allowed in California public schools.
“You can’t have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn’t deal with the science behind climate change,” said Simitian. “This is a phenomenon of global importance and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon.”
Scientists don’t even understand the science behind climate change, but somehow we’re going to teach it to fourth-graders.
If “relevant” and “current” are the standards by which science education is judged, as opposed to … oh, I don’t know, incidental things like “evidence” and “scientific method,” then we might as well start teaching the “science” behind how you can look years younger with “better than Botox” skin care products.
You don’t have to look any further than the last two years’ hurricane predictions to know that we’re still a little fuzzy on the whole cause-and-effect behind climate change.
If you’re going to insist that your science curriculum presents climate change science as established fact you might as well use Parade Magazine for your text book.
Last time I checked, the U.S. was just above Mexico and solidly behind Poland in the world science rankings. Substituting junk science for fundamentals isn’t going to help improve that ranking anytime soon.
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