Can teachers bring awareness about global warming and animal welfare to their students in class?
Yes, but… You need to be very careful not to use your classroom as a platform for your personal beliefs. As a teacher, it is your job to teach certain things, and there are some places where it may be appropriate to tie them to global warming and animal welfare, and some places where it is not. Most schools these days have fairly well-defined curricula, so while you may be able to bring these things up once or twice a year, you can’t make them the focus of what you do. If you put your personal agenda above the things you were hired to teach, you won’t stay employed for long. It also depends on where you are teaching. In my area, for example, there is a charter school which is a sustainability academy. Teachers there can talk about sustainability all the time, whereas in another school, it would be inappropriate. If you were to work in an area near a slaughterhouse, for example, where many of your students’ parents worked, or in a community in which hunting is valued, you couldn’t tal
