Instead they force another credit on already burdened high school students. Many of the requirements have already been bumped up to the effect that most students don't have the time to take a course of their choice. The district has done more than enough by punishing the Chugiak students with the claim that the paint ball incident had an overwhelming effect on the students and staff at Chugiak. Yet now the district has taken it another step by trying to make Alaska studies a requirement. The administrators are making the students lose more of their security and self-esteem with the knowledge that the district doesn't trust them.
Education is a rare gift, but too much forced education can become an overwhelming burden.
The recent debate over cruise ship regulation and clean water has been brought directly into the limelight of media coverage. And, as so often happens, many other pressing environmental issues have thus been overlooked. One such issue that should concern all Alaskans is the Clean Air Act. Alaska is the only state that has received an exemption to the act. Because of this exemption, the diesel fuel we buy is six times dirtier than anywhere else in the nation.