SPEAK OUT: Should Children Learn about Climate Change in School?

Climate change continues to be a controversial topic among adults.

So, should children learn about it in school?

Polls show that most students in the United States do not learn much about climate change in school, NPR reported. But Silver Spring’s James Blake High School has been bringing in a guest speaker from the Alliance for Climate Education to talk about it with the student body.

Colleen Roots, a biology teacher at Blake, told NPR “it’s part of science and a part of education that is lacking in the curriculum right now—no one has changed the curriculum in far too many years.”

Roots invited ACE’s Cy Maramangalam to speak to Blake students.

Blake senior Danielle Snowden told NPR: “It was kind of scary. I didn’t realize that it was that big an issue.”

Click here to read and listen to the NPR report.

While Next Generation Science Standards developed by science and education groups from 26 states were issued in April and include curriculum on climate change, the standards are voluntary, meaning climate change may not be a part of regular classroom curriculum any time soon.

SPEAK OUT: Do you think Montgomery County schools should teach climate change?