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Third graders at Public School 103 in the north Bronx sat on a rug last month while their teacher, Kristy Neumeister, led a book discussion.

The book, “Rain School,” is about children who live in a rural region of Chad, a country in central Africa. Every year, their school must be rebuilt because storms wash it away.

“And what’s causing all these rains and storms and floods?” asked Ms. Neumeister.

“Carbon,” said Aiden, a serious-looking 8-year-old.

Ms. Neumeister was one of 39 elementary school teachers from across the city who participated in a four-day training session in the summer called “Integrating Climate Education in N.Y.C. Public Schools.” Its goal was to make the teachers familiar with the topic, so they can work climate change into their lesson plans.

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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

now education is going to officially be a state by state issue without federal oversight

and if you are not educated enough to vote when you are old enough it will be your fault for not voting right

when are politicians, elected officials, and corporations going to be held accountable for dividing the US into fifty different countries all with different laws, policies, human rights, etcetera and not the people who are suffering under the boot of corporate owned politicians and "elected" officials

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why would you want more federal oversight? States and school districts are far better at reacting in real time to the needs of their people than the federal government. Do you really want 9/11 taught in current events because a bunch of 60+ year old people believe history stops after WWII?

Education oversight has always been terrible, from no child left behind, to even student succeeds. The best your going to get is some standardized tests and lip service to educating everyone.

The federal government should be the last resort for any governing function.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

so you want fifty different states deciding the people's fates depending on where they are and not a unified government?

think that would be the Disunited States of America

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

States are perfectly capable of working together, they already do it in tons of cases including education. Adding more federal oversight makes it worse in almost every case. It's not required that states actively fight each other unless told otherwise.

In the case of education there's already a few standards out there that are popular, common core is the current dominant one.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

they work together these states?

there are border patrol like police on the borders of certain states to prevent people who are following another state's set of laws and policies from entering their state

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I'm starting to think we should seriously consider getting rid of all these "states"