Started after climate change debate pushed back in school curriculum
A petition started after the debate on climate change was ‘vastly scaled back’ in the school curriculum has gained over 12,000 signatures.
The petition was started by 15 year old Esha Marwaha after she discovered that the draft key stage 3 (the national curriculum for under 14 year olds) geography curriculum for English schools had pushed back discussion on the issue. In a special blog she wrote for the Guardian, she said ‘Climate change is the most pressing and threatening issue to modern-day society. Through lack of understanding from generations before us, we are having to fix it. And how can we do this without education?’
Campaigners have emailed education secretary Michael Gove to reinstate the climate change debate
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‘Our government, part of the generation who bear much of the responsibility for this problem, intends to not only fail to act on climate change themselves but to obscure the truth from children and young people. It is outrageous that Michael Gove can even consider the elimination of climate change education for under-14s. We must keep climate change in the curriculum in order for young people take on this challenge of tackling the threat posed by our changing climate’. Her views echoed the petition to the education secretary, Michael Gove, on the website change.org.
Following the immense support the petition has gained, which at one point was getting 500 signatures an hour, other groups have joined the campaign to get the climate change debate reinstated to the school curriculum. 2000 people from student network group People and Planet have emailed Gove to argue their case for reinstated the subject. Also, students, members of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and others plan to approach academics, universities and schools to take part in the formal consultation around the plans, which closes on 16 April.
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