Posted on 09/23/2024 5:36:34 AM PDT by george76
The Democrat Party is pushing to increase “literacy” on climate change-related material in America’s schools while students are performing poorly with respect to actual literacy.
The party’s education platform mentions the importance of “climate literacy” for American K-12 students several times, emphasizing the purported need for students to be able to understand and interpret information relating to climate change. Meanwhile, the average reading score for both fourth and eighth grade students in 2022 had fallen by three points relative to 2019, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
“We will equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand complex scientific issues, counter the rising tide of denialism by promoting environmental and climate literacy, and reverse the Trump Administration’s cuts to the National Environmental Education Act,” the platform states.
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Less than 50% of all fourth grade students were able to read at or above the standard for proficiency in 2022, with only 17% of black students and 21% of Latino pupils meeting the mark, according to the NAEP.
The U.S. is seeing “staggering numbers of children, especially children of color and children from low-income backgrounds, without fundamental literacy skills,” Allison Socol, the vice president of policy, practice and research for the Education Trust, wrote earlier this year.
NAEP data “consistently” demonstrates that about two in every three American students cannot read proficiently, and about 40% of all students are effectively non-readers, according to an analysis published by Scientific American in September 2023.
Notably, the Democrat platform mentions conventional literacy just once, while “climate literacy” is mentioned on two occasions. The word “writing” or its cognates do not appear at all in the platform.
The emphasis on “climate literacy” aligns with a broader push by Democrats to make education more climate-friendly, even as many American students are struggling in the classroom.
For example, the Biden-Harris administration is spending big to replace existing school bus fleets with electric models in order to bring down emissions and fight climate change. While Vice President Kamala Harris has promoted the program as beneficial for students, it could end up lining the pockets of Chinese manufacturers and is potentially susceptible to waste, fraud and abuse, according to reports by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of the Inspector General.
In June, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) — a labor organization that is closely allied with the Democratic Party — issued a list of climate-related demands as a part of their contract negotiations with the city, even though educational achievement statistics for the city’s schools are lackluster, according to the Illinois Policy Institute. CTU’s demands included calling for the removal of all lead pipes in school buildings, the replacement of windows that do not open, and the creation of a “climate champion” position at each school to organize climate-related activities.
In 2022, Democrat Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s Department of Health released a five-part climate curriculum for students that suggested it may be best for students to rely on “emotions” rather than “rational thinking” when engaging with climate change-related subject matter.
Moreover, pandemic-era school shutdowns — a policy pushed widely by Democrats at the time — have also resulted in significant learning loss that is continuing to disrupt educational outcomes, The New York Times found in March.
If we had some political literacy ... that’s the only ‘literacy’ we’d need
“Climate literacy”. ROTFL!!! Where do these turd rollers come up with this crap?
Forcing their religion on children
because they’re running a Climate Cult where actual knowledge is replaced with cult-think.
Indoctrination over education.
Socialists Unions in government schools destroy literacy .
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3791063/posts
Remember: they don’t want an intelligent creative society. They want a pool of compliant workers. There is no virtue in the left.
What they really want is equality but being unequal, that is not possible
Remember: they don’t want an intelligent creative society. They want a pool of compliant workers.
“There’s a reason education sucks, it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that.
I’m talking about the real owners, now. The real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice.
You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear.
They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.
But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting ____ed by a system that threw them overboard 30 years ago.
You know what they want? Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly ___tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.”
-George Carlin
Haitians won’t get overheated if Springfield, Ohio gets two degrees warmer.
Maybe they will learn it’s too hot to lock babies in the car all day while you play in the casino🤷🤷♀️
Wants to make them all Weather experts ,LOL
They’ve already accomplished this. Graduates think climate change is the world’s biggest issue and yet most can’t read or write at grade level.
I used to like the idea of public education, but thought the system needed some serious reform.
Now I am of the opinion that the public school system is evil and must be destroyed.
The news media indoctrinated us with that back in the 1970s to prepare us for THE COMING ICE AGE which was supposed to be now. And as usual, it was “all our fault!”
Yes, I remember we were taught that we are ‘in between Ice Ages’ right now and that there would be a new one coming soon as we were ‘late’ for one to begin.
Perhaps the ‘Global Warming’ was a good thing. You can’t grow crops in a mile thick glacier..............
“Class,it’s going to be cold next January. Can you say cold?”
I thought they wanted to stamp out disinformation?
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