Learn the truth. You won't get it from Outcome Based Education. That is pure propaganda. If you really are interested in studying the subject, you don't need a classroom. Right now I see you have access to a computer. There are many weather stations that are reasonably priced and hook right up to your computer. You have the internet which has all kinds of helpful information, some of it false and some of it true. With your education you can determine for yourself what is true and what is politics. I wish I would have had such things when I was a kid. All I ever had was a used chemistry set that my dad bought at the Goodwill. However, I did scrape together enough money to put together my amateur radio station in high school.

Remember the Wright Bros. never went to school to learn how to build airplanes. But they did build them.

I think local school boards should be deciding what subjects to offer with the limited funds they have. Now if you offer to pay for the hiring of a teacher to teach this elective course, they might say yes. You ask about propaganda, but you are the one who wrote:

Only few people take action against such injustice, because most do not understand what is at stake.

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You say an additional teacher doesn't need to be hired. This makes no sense. Either, this elective is offered, and a teacher is hired to teach it, an existing teacher carries additional workload, which means the teacher is idle before, or an existing class is replaced. No an idle teacher doing an additional class probably means that they will want more money. So unless you are replacing an existing class, you have to pay up.

So clearly, you feel this class is needed so as to push people to understand what is at stake and to take action against your perceived injustice. Brainwashing. Propaganda.

I agree that such electives should be offered in high school. I believe trying to mandate specific electives is not feasible since the electives are usually left to the local school boards to decide upon. Should you garner enough support among your peers then you may be able to sway the school board to include such electives. As you have seen by the other answers here, we are free society and this freedom includes the willingness of many to maintain their self induced ignorance and to feed their ideology over actual knowledge.

Do not wait for anyone else to teach you subjects you wish to now more about. While a formal, structured study course is preferred to a go it alone approach, this does not mean that you cannot go it alone for now.

When you become of voting age you would do well to not vote for any candidates that only have an 18th century understanding of the 21st century Science.

You know what you are told and not what you have seen.

I've been roaming the US for 25 years and I will tell you that more often than not those that claim to be the stewards of the environment, the leftists, are the ones that are most destructive to it.

The key to a clean and healthy environment is a healthy economically thriving society. And the a capitalist society far out reigns any socialist society when it comes to wealth generation and a clean environment. Compare any western capitalist society with any communist or 3rd world society and see. If you live in the US and want to see a regional example look no further than a healthy thriving neighborhood full of working class people who own their own homes compared to an impoverished hood full of welfare recipients living in public housing or section 8 housing.

Look around and you will see the true solution to a clean and sustainable environment.

Study what you want in college. High schools do not teach a basic logic class and you want them to teach something YOU find interesting, because YOU think it is important? Further, the gov't would love to teach how gov't regulation and gov't control is more needed.

Perfect evidence of why a logic class is needed.

And BTW, as you discuss how you want the gov't to create more requirements for the schools, could you tell us more about how bad the gov't is???

Simple logic. If you don't trust the gov't then giving the gov't more power is probably NOT WISE.

Sure but will it be boring and put people to sleep ?

We had to watch the movie 'Silent Spring' in grade school .

The only good thing about that no homework and its jam packed with lies .

In my opinion NO, since all non solids that rise into the upper atmosphere separate into nothingness, so the suns rays can warm earth as our planet rotates so all plants grow and yield food and oxygen so all species can survive. Mike

No.

Try studying mathematics and statistics and you will find out that all the global warming stuff is a load of crap.

Hmm I think your motives are wrong, you can study environmental issues yourself, but that is not what you want, you want all children to believe what you believe, you want to push propanganda

High schools should teach kids how to economically survive so they can buy better and stretch their money.

I am a junior in high school. I am passionate about a lot of things, one of which is the environment. Especially after reading the latest NASA reports, I feel that environmental science is under-emphasized. Corporations and wars are conspicuous threats to the Earth, however most green agenda's are shut down by the government because they "endanger" our capitalism. Only few people take action against such injustice, because most do not understand what is at stake.

The federal government would never support a plan to make environmental science a requirement, therefore I feel that state and city governments must take action in prioritizing what truly matters. With senior year approaching, I only have the option of either taking an AP environmental class or a bs electives like astronomy. I plan on taking this AP course, but most of my peers who either dislike science or have too many APs in other subjects decide not to.

Shouldn't environmental science be offered as an elective not only in my NYC school, but nation wide?