Immediately one little girl raised her hand and began parroting about how we must take care of the Earth and recycle and global warming and...
I said, "Angelica... was that what this article was about?"
She nodded.
I was freaked. I said, "Did anyone else get anything different from it?"
Silence. I said, "Let's read this first paragraph again, okay?..."
It took them a second reading to realize they weren't being fed more pro-environmentalist stuff. They'd never heard anything else.
My daughter is a Junior in college, and she gets pretty mad in class when the professors start slamming the President or America, or conservatives. I ask her why she doesn't speak up. She says because she doesn't want to be ostracized.
“Immediately one little girl raised her hand and began parroting about how we must take care of the Earth and recycle and global warming and...”
Now that was a good story. Bethanie you have an uphill battle but I commend you for taking up the fight. We need more teachers like you. I remember getting little pamphlets on protecting the planet and all that in school. The only time I heard anything different whether it be about acid rain or the ozone hole was when I discovered it myself. Luckily my parents supplied my need for reading material. What have you been up to?