Many local school districts have an environmental education plan that is supposed to involve teachers from all major subject areas. Few school districts seriously implement it and few teachers seem to be aware of it. Now, environmental education is required by state law in public schools from K-12. The result is that from young childhood, environmental ignorance is promoted. It doesn't have to be this way.
Environmental education can give students basic environmental information.
I'm not talking about environmental propaganda for one side or another in a debate. Environmental education exposes students to a broad range of perspectives and gives them problem-solving skills to make their own decisions. Most Wisconsin students aren't getting more than a small dab of this kind of education. They are being done an injustice, and the entire public should be aware of it. Loyal Packer season ticketholders are being given a penalty off the field.