Dept. of Ed., EPA, Green Czar will give $, so Maryland High Schools Now Requiring 'Environmental Literacy'

Not that there is high literacy in the Baltimore Schools for just reading and writing.

Maryland High Schools Now Requiring 'Environmental Literacy' | The Weekly Standard

JUN 28, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Sure, we're routinely graduating kids in this country that can't read or do basic math -- but hey, let's lard up the curriculum with a bunch of politicized nonsense, shall we?:

Maryland is the first state in the country to impose a new requirement to graduate from high school -- something called environmental literacy. ....

The foundation for jobs is basic literacy -- not environmental literacy. You simply can't have the latter without the former, and having driven through Baltimore recently, it seems really hard to believe that state schools are succeeding at their core educational mission sufficiently to devote new energy and resources extraneous curricular matters such as this.

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