Are Students Being Taught Science or Silliness in Regards to Ecology?
Parents send their children to school seeking to ground their offspring in the classic academic disciplines of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Parents might be surprised to learn that some public schools are acquiring a decidedly different emphasis. Students at a number of Maryland Schools, according to the February 8, 2001 Southern Maryland supplement of the Washington Post, are participating in an educational curriculum produced by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the State Department of Education called the Maryland Bay Schools Project. In this program based on eco-immersion, students are constantly bombarded by a bevy of environmental facts and fallacies throughout every facet of the school day. For example, students solve math problems pertaining to flies and compose odes in honor of the creatures and geographical features found along the legendary Chesapeake. However, there is more to this program than improving math and science test scores. Part of the goal is to bring about
