I agree. Conservatives have a point on this, but then the same goes for the addling of kids raised on right-wing pablum.
We are creating a generation of crybabies.
Nope, You Can't Learn About Climate Change in Georgia Schools
Georgia Tech paleoclimate scientist Kim Cobb made a disturbing discovery when she saw her 8 year-old daughter’s state-issued science textbook.
In the section on Earth science, there was no mention of climate change whatsoever — despite the fact that studies conducted by state scientists show the state is vulnerable to climate change (see image above). When she asked her daughter about it, she replied that kind of class was only for older kids. So Cobb dug a little deeper into state standards to find out more. She writes:So essentially, children growing up in Georgia do not learn about climate change at all unless they are given the opportunity to take an elective oceanography class in high school.
It spurred me to dig a little deeper into the K-12 Georgia Science Standards. As it turns out, the only mention of climate change comes in the optional high schoolOceanography course standards:
“Explain relationships between climate change, the greenhouse effect, and the consequences of global warming on the ocean.”
Georgia’s approach is woefully out of step with the recommendations by the National Academy of Science, who published “A Framework for K-12 Science Education”, featuring the following climate change standards for Grade 5:
“If Earth’s global mean temperature continues to rise, the lives of humans and other organisms will be affected in many different ways.”
Again, this flies in the face of national recommendations. The National Academies framework includes even more detailed recommendations for all students taking general science courses in grades 8 and 12:
By the end of grade 8. Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean sur- face temperature (global warming). Reducing human vulnerability to whatever cli- mate changes do occur depend on the understanding of climate science, engineer- ing capabilities, and other kinds of knowledge, such as understanding of human behavior and on applying that knowledge wisely in decisions and activities.
By the end of grade 12. Global climate models are often used to understand the process of climate change because these changes are complex and can occur slowly over Earth’s history. Though the magnitudes of humans’ impacts are greater than they have ever been, so too are humans’ abilities to model, predict, and manage current and future impacts. Through computer simulations and other studies, important discoveries are still being made about how the ocean, the atmosphere, and the biosphere interact and are modified in response to human activities, as well as to changes in human activities. Thus science and engineering will be essen- tial both to understanding the possible impacts of global climate change and to informing decisions about how to slow its rate and consequences—for humanity as well as for the rest of the planet.
http://gizmodo.com/nope-you-cant-lea...+%28Gizmodo%29
Being PC is horrible to rightwingnuts, but supressing science is ok.
And being intellectually dishonest is ok for moonbats. Glad we got that out of the way.
ing liberals. Deflecting all over this thread. The PC is INSANE at colleges these days. I know. I went back to school a couple years ago. You s might be right about religious ....but the pussyass....don't ever offend me,...I can't take criticism from any one crybaby bull is all leftwing. Deal with the crazy ers in your party, maybe we will deal with the ones in ours.
ter McGee melts down syntactically. Most unusual.
yeah, he forgot to sign his name
College students are just figuring life out. There are going to be some hiccups. Some may get alcohol poisoning, others may get firecrackers stuck in their rectums, others may get arrested for running a train on a passed out sorority pledge, others may pay too much attention to building a new, perfectly PC language.
Professors/Administrators have a responsibility to encourage discussion but also be realists.
then there's sadistic, mortal bullying
Clemson University fraternity pledge forced to walk bridge railing before falling to his death
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/clemson-university-frat-pledge-died-stunt-court-filing-article-1.2325122
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The Rise of Victimhood Culture
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...ulture/404794/
Nah, you should see the "we're being repressed" stuff on the part of people with religious views. You weren't paying close enough attention.
Obama on liberal college students who want to be "coddled": "That’s not the way we learn"
https://archive.is/E2BEC
Good for him.
Darren finds a nut
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