Misinformation is a tool of oppression and it has no place in classrooms.
The fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to build political power and spread disinformation about climate change is well-documented. It has long kept the American public in the dark and elected leaders in their pocket. Their strategy of denying the causes of climate change has been wildly lucrative for the fossil fuel industry, but devastating for our environment and democracy.
A spate of bills introduced in states across the country would either prohibit teachers from discussing climate change in their classrooms or require public school teachers to present “both sides” of an issue that has come to dominate American political discourse. This would give science equal weight with flat-out propaganda.
Furthermore, presenting information to our kids through the lens of partisan politics corrupts the goals of education. It deadens critical thinking skills and instead nudges children toward ideological, rather than fact-based, decision making. It divides our communities. It teaches kids to distrust, to bend facts to their preferences, rather than to inquire, test and seek truth.
I feel solidarity with the teachers whose daily work may be disrupted by these backward bills. I feel angry for the students whose education is being compromised for political purposes. I feel frustration for the parents whose kids are being turned into the next battleground for an inane “debate” over climate change, instead of being prepared to take it on.
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