Political calculus: Even math class goes green

As part of the ongoing effort to politicize every aspect of our lives, some of our children are now subject to "environmental education" -- in math class. A Bow High School teacher, Marcel Duhaime, has won a grant to "bring environmental studies into typically non-environmental type classes, such as math," as our story put it yesterday. The grant is from the National Environmental Education Foundation and The Weather Channel. The foundation says its goal is that "students will be empowered to take positive action to improve the environment now." The foundation calls this "environmental education." There's another word for it. "Indoctrination." If teaching students to "improve the environment now" is a proper function of math class, then no place is safe from political disputes. If we want to restore civility to public discourse, we can start by limiting, not expanding, the spheres of life in which politics is pervasive...UnionLeader