Maryland public school students will need to know their green to graduate under a new policy adopted today by the state board of education.
State officials and environmental activists called the vote "historic" and said Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require environmental literacy to graduate from high school. Under the rule, public schools will be required to work lessons about conservation, smart growth and the health of our natural world into their core subjects like science and social studies.
The requirement applies to students entering high school this fall. Local school systems will be able to shape those lessons to be relevant to their communities, but all will have to meet standards set by the state. School systems will have to report to the state every five years on what they're doing to meet the requirements.
Gov. Martin O'Malley issued a statement calling the board's action "a defining moment for education in Maryland," while environmental advocates were even more effusive. Don Baugh, head of the No Child Left Inside Coalition promoting federal environmental literacy legislation, called it a "momentous day."
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Maryland should concentrate on the basics...reading , writing, and math before they add other requirements...too much politics in the school system!
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So our "graduates" won't know how to read thier own diploma, but will be well indoctrinated on a con about global warming. This is exactly what the communists want-an ignorant society who will believe whatever the government tells them. America as we know it will soon cease to exist.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the "Fiscal Responsibility" classes will take 10 years to bring in to the requirements...
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