Teachers demand the government take action to teach children about the climate crisis.
On Monday, Lecturers from Extinction Rebellion group expressed this demand in a letter at the Department for education.
According to the letter, “In the national curriculum climate change is mentioned in passing now and then, a bullet point in a subtopic of the discrete curricula for Science and Geography.”
Lecturers also claim that it breaks the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change, in which the British government signed an international treaty promising to “enhance climate change education”.
They calculate that students in Britain can go through school with fewer than 10 lessons on the climate crisis.
“Climate and ecological breakdown will define the life of every child and student alive today. They and we are facing an unimaginable catastrophe.”
“But it’s hard for students to take the issue seriously when it plays almost no part in the content of their education”, Tim Jones, a former secondary school teacher said.
Oliver Hayes, a former teacher and Head of Department said, “It is clear from scenes from September with millions of children taking to the streets across the world – that children are standing up and saying enough is enough. Worryingly, this emergency has been almost ignored in teaching, especially in state secondary schools.
Extinction Rebellion has been protesting in Britain for last few weeks to put pressure on the government to take steps against climate crisis problems.
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Teachers Demand Schools Must Teach Students About Climate Crisis
