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H.R. 3036, The No Child Left Inside Act of 2007
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mattcoop
This bill is great, but it needs a new name. For the sake of a pun, the current name conjures the all or nothing approach of No Child Left Behind.
kimme
That's because it actually is an amendment to the No Child Left Behind act.
Thea
The #1 environmental problem is that many people feel little connection to environmental issues. The time to influence people is in childhood. This bill could do A LOT to build citizen involvement in the future.
laura
Actually, it started out as an amendment to No CHild Left Behind, but now it is an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, regardidng environmental education. I agree the name is problematic for those who understand NCLB. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the masses don't and those who fall for the rosy names the Bush Adminstration gives to foolish and detrimental legislation are likely to bandwagon this in. In this case, it would be a good thing. Environmental Education (EE) is badly needed.
Mia
Poor people don't care how the environment is doing. They are just trying to survive. Our government is doing its best to make us poor. Scrap this bill and its loser host (NCLB). Return control of schools to the local district.
sophie
After designing a green school and curricula as a senior thesis, this bill is a great start to creating other initiatives to involve schools in making communities, families and students aware and accountable for their actions.
Entrench
I'm all for getting kids involved in enviromental activities; recycling, planting trees, and beautification projects. However my concern is that this will simply become a blank check to further brainwash our children into believing this 'global warming' non-sense and to further squash the voices of logic and dissent on the matter.
John
Environmental issues are good if there is a debate. The bill will make K-12 students "environmentally literate" and push "sky-is-falling" type of environmentalism. The type that give us $4.00 plus per gallon on gasoline and make it impossible to tap into our huge oil reserves offshore. This will be the education of "American un-exceptionalism".
Ann Marie
The Nazis were also good about indoctrinating children too, it doesn't mean we should be doing it. Environmentalism is the new paganism.
dr. orange
Indoctrinating children is the parent's job. Educating them is the school's...if there is a cogent argument that global climate change is 'nonsense' then it is up to the children to discern it. This is both parents' and teachers' jobs: to give children the tools to decide what is true and what is not. Knowing what nature is, will enable them to know what it was, and is becoming. The ESA didn't come about because everything was flourishing.