On its face, the board’s vote last week requiring that science textbooks “analyze and evaluate different views on the existence of global warming” seems reasonable. It’s not.
Just because you can find a handful of “experts” who disagree with thousands of climate scientists doesn’t mean our children should be taught that the science is still up in the air. And yet, sadly, that will be just the case when the new textbooks are distributed.
To make matters worse, State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy said in Saturday’s Austin American-Statesman: “Conservatives like me think the evidence (for human contributions to global warming) is a bunch of hooey.” Hooey? Such flippant statements impact Texas negatively in several ways:
- They give thinking, educated Texas conservatives a bad name (while causing many to speculate about the Chairman’s vocabulary capacity).
- They lead to poor decisions, putting Texas children at a competitive disadvantage in science education, thus failing them as they prepare to compete in the global marketplace.
- They draw national ridicule, making Texas a laughing stock.
In 1999, when religious conservatives on the Kansas State Board of Education removed evolution from that state’s science curriculum, it brought the Sunflower State international ridicule as a “science-free zone.” Two years later, moderates recaptured the board and reversed the ruling — and, hopefully, Kansas’ reputation.
We can’t afford – literally, can’t afford — for Texas to become known as a new, even bigger, science-free zone. Our children deserve better.
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Texas Board of Education needs to read Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. It’s hard to believe that anyone with a triple-digit IQ is questioning our impact on global climate change.
Texas is already one-down because of George W. Bush. Let’s not add insult to injury.
Let’s let our young people know the truth about global warming.
US education is already behind the rest. Let truth be told.
I seriously question if our conservative legislators are considering the fate of our children environmentally or educationally. Their main concern seems to be to protect their business interests that would be affected by any attention to global warming or for that matter any protection of the environment inside or outside the schools.
Representative Dr. Alma A Allen has two bills to protect Texas children from air pollution. You should look into these bills also.
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