The Bay Schools Project program was justified by education officials on the grounds that students need to learn early of the threats to the environment. As future stewards of God's creation, children should be taught to care for and appreciate His handiwork. If this approach was practiced in a religious setting, it would be called brainwashing. There are other evils in the world such as abortion, excessive taxation, undeserved welfare, and the overall sinfulness of mankind. But liberals would declare academic programs emphasizing these concerns to the exclusion of all other as absolutely morbid, and rightfully so.
Balance is a virtue worth cultivating.
From my own sources, I know for a fact that some Southern Maryland schools are slacking on the basics. I have heard there are kindergartners failing to learn their letters. Others have been taught that Christmas is merely a festival of lights and that White children should celebrate the Black nationalist commemoration of Kwanza. Now they want to waste more time cleaning creek beds and keeping oyster flats. Through various court cases, liberals and secular humanists have removed Judeo-Christian beliefs as the backbone of the public education system and have declared through academic fads such as values clarification and multiculturalism that it is not the place of the school to imbue the student with a set of traditional values.