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H.R. 3036, The No Child Left Inside Act of 2007
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mattcoop
September 28, 2007, 4:31pm (report abuse)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
October 1, 2007, 2:07pm (report abuse)That's because it actually is an amendment to the No Child Left Behind act.
Thea
December 27, 2007, 10:10pm (report abuse)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
December 31, 2007, 5:56pm (report abuse)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
July 14, 2008, 12:38pm (report abuse)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
July 15, 2008, 6:13pm (report abuse)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
July 16, 2008, 11:38am (report abuse)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
July 22, 2008, 3:09pm (report abuse)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
August 14, 2008, 9:43am (report abuse)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
August 19, 2008, 11:52pm (report abuse)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.
greatdanes
September 8, 2008, 10:31am (report abuse)This is just another example of What is Wrong with Big Government. Do Not Pass this Indoctrination of Bull Sh-t. If Americans don't STOP this and the other programs NOW we will all be taking orders from the government. Take your Children and put them into the Schools YOU want and Know who are the Teachers and what they are learning. The Liberal programs MUST BE STOPPED.
Cheryl
September 8, 2008, 11:12am (report abuse)Environmentalism is not a 'brainwash' program. We live and depend on the natural environment for health, clean water, access to resources, and to enjoy. There are huge economic benefits attributed to ecosystem services, and studies have shown that access to the outdoors and outdoor education improves the behavior of children as well as their appreciation for the natural world. Children should remain critical of 'issues' but survival and exsistence should never be forgotten as a basic human lesson and should definately be taught in schools!
Martin
September 12, 2008, 3:07pm (report abuse)Some in Congress want taxpayers to fund and legitimize the imposition of the Al Gore type of green propaganda on our school kids. This kind of mindset has given us $4.00 gallon gasoline by prohibiting drilling on the outer continental shelf and Alaska's North Slope, and also stymied the building of nuclear power plants and the use of clean coal technology.
Ro
September 15, 2008, 11:59am (report abuse)The comment that "Environmentalism is the New Paganism" is both affronting and rather ignorant of severity of global environmental issues at hand. It is because of commments like this that we NEED environmental literacy programs.
Rosetta
September 15, 2008, 1:41pm (report abuse)As the daughter of a long line of educators and the mother of a new teacher, I have watched this program which started out at a good idea turned into a screw up. Why keep something that doesnot work, we need to go back to educating children. Give them ore time in school LEARNING with special help in the classrooms helping the teacher (Grandparent program worked well for years.) Get kids ready for life not just spitting out useless test. Teach them how everything you teach them as a place in life at every level they maybe at from "stay-at-home-mom" to the President. Teach them pride in being an American again with starting the day with the pledge to country; and teach them their right of religion with allowed prayer in their faith every morning before starting their day. Education needs to be tough love - NO Child left behind does not work
Virginia Leppla
September 15, 2008, 9:46pm (report abuse)This bill is a waste of taxpayers money. How about suggesting a common sense approach to nature in our teachers. Send them a memo and stop spending money on useless programs. Environmental literacy is just another way to grow government.
NH
September 17, 2008, 4:21pm (report abuse)This bill is supposed to correct "Nature Deficit Disorder" a new disease conjured up by the lefty nutcases!
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HR 3036 will expand the federal role in education and indoctrinate our children with Al Gore style environmental propaganda.
One-sided environmentalism is injected into every area of academic study or consume precious class time recycling and engaging in politicized community activism.
We don't need yet another expansion of federal power, with Washington insiders deciding for schools what latest controversial environmental fad must be in their education standards and teacher training.
The requirements for material produced under HR 3036 to be scientifically accurate and non-political are unverifiable and unenforceable.
"Environmental justice" and "self-esteem" are completely non-academic political and psychological concepts.
Ethan
September 17, 2008, 11:17pm (report abuse)Everything is in the hands of the teachers. This act is more about science learning than it is about environmentalism. If the US is going to reamain cutting edge then we need to allow our students to become scientifically literate. For many science subjects this will happen best OUTSIDE. Who will figure out the next best way to drill for oil if kids don't like geology?
Kennon
September 19, 2008, 9:22am (report abuse)Two decades of experience in Environmental Investigation and Cleanup has taught me that most of our environmental laws are based on so many fallacious assumptions they are either unnecessary or counter productive. Junk Science has been used to deceive the public into surrendering power to communists masquerading as environmental leaders. This bill should be defeated because it will be used to brainwash children into believing Junk Science.
The ban on DDT alone is responsible for more deaths than the top fourteen genocidal murderers of the 20th Century. But environmental leaders think this is OK because the victims are mostly brown people who are propagating too rapidly.
MJH
September 23, 2008, 12:54pm (report abuse)We get "Junk Science" labels from the paranoid conspiracy theorists, anti-environment Straw Man arguments from partisan ideologues, and even the argument ad Nazium from the true illiterates. Is there anyway to move beyond the in-groupout-group dyadic instinct from our primitive, tribal period and actually look at the facts of an issue, make a judgment, and then honestly admit to ourselves if we're making it on the basis of a visceral response and fear of or distaste for the "other" rather than any empirically-based, logical arguments?
Whether or not we want our kids to grow up with something other than trepidation over that "icky", inconvenient stuff outside in "nature" really seems beside the point. In fact, maybe we aren't that removed from the environment after all. The litany of mindless, cave-clan responses detailed above make it clear that we may not have strayed very far from huddling around the fire and calling the jungle home.