Third graders at Public School 103 in the north Bronx sat on a rug last month while their teacher, Kristy Neumeister, led a book discussion.

The book, “Rain School,” is about children who live in a rural region of Chad, a country in central Africa. Every year, their school must be rebuilt because storms wash it away.

“And what’s causing all these rains and storms and floods?” asked Ms. Neumeister.

“Carbon,” said Aiden, a serious-looking 8-year-old.

Ms. Neumeister was one of 39 elementary school teachers from across the city who participated in a four-day training session in the summer called “Integrating Climate Education in N.Y.C. Public Schools.” Its goal was to make the teachers familiar with the topic, so they can work climate change into their lesson plans.

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  • @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    States are perfectly capable of working together, they already do it in tons of cases including education. Adding more federal oversight makes it worse in almost every case. It’s not required that states actively fight each other unless told otherwise.

    In the case of education there’s already a few standards out there that are popular, common core is the current dominant one.

    • Verdant Banana
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      18 months ago

      they work together these states?

      there are border patrol like police on the borders of certain states to prevent people who are following another state’s set of laws and policies from entering their state