Most Teachers Don’t Teach Climate Change; 4 in 5 Parents Wish They Did

In fact, 86% of teachers believe climate change should be taught in schools. “There’s so much political jargon around climate change that I would either have to dismiss their concerns that they bring up or burn a lot of time talking about something that is outside my content area,” said Jack Erickson, a science teacher at Cienega High School in Vail, Ariz., in response to our callout. The standards instruct teachers to cover the facts of human-caused climate change beginning in middle school.

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