Gee, you two, calm down. Sure, the kids may not be able to read when they graduate, their knowledge of history will be strictly limited and carefully manipulated,and numbers will be beyond their comprehension. There may not be any jobs for them to get in Michigan anyway, particularly with the "skyrocketing" energy costs President Obama hopes to bring about (the economy thrives on CHEAP energy). But think how nice and meekly they'll submit to the environmentally-correct hardships Washington, D.C., will impose upon us all.
Remember when the college kids of the '60s demanded that we "QUESTION AUTHORITY"? Well, they're all grown up now and they're in control; questioning authority is a no-no. First they came for our toilets, demanding that they use less water. We submitted fairly meekly. Then they came for our faucets, demanding that THEY dispense less water. We complained quietly. Now they want our light bulbs and our gasoline-powered automobiles (not to mention complete control of our health care, our financial institutions, and heck, your pay itself).
YOU will protest (and be placed on Homeland Security's Watch List). Your children will submit meekly, knowing that CO2 is a pollutant and will result in the end of the planet as we know it. If the education establishment succeeds sufficiently, your children will turn you in to the authorities if you turn the heat up in the winter or the air conditioning down in the summer.
And all will be well in the land.
The noble environmentalists cleaned up our air (so clean that I've even read that the darned clean air is contributing to global warming/climate change, because clean air lets the sun shine through) and they've cleaned up our water. Global cooling and the coming Ice Age fizzled. The population boom and subsequent planetary starvation went nowhere. They were left to seek other environmental projects, lest their jobs be done and they be forced to find real, productive professions.
Lo, they found CO2 is higher than it was...sometime in the past. Aha! It must be the reason the globe was warming for a few years there (immediately following the Global Cooling and the Coming Ice Age). And how hard will it be to eliminate CO2 from the air?!! They are guaranteed projects for years to come, and it is necessary that the children be indoctrinated to accept all that is necessary to "clean up the CO2 pollution." Yes, people are actually referring to CO2 as "pollution in the air" which must be stopped. I've even heard that the "pollution" is causing breathing problems! The hard work of the environmentalist wackos is paying off.
The schools are merely doing their job, just as the current crop of politicians demand. Quiet down, support your schools with your tax dollars, and accept your newly-formed environmentally-correct children.