The post asks us as readers if BP should be allowed to teach children in schools about the oil spill. There are many threads that have lengthy and sophisticated replies, but I see no need for. My answer to that question? Yes- are you kidding me?
BP is responsible for the most detrimental environmental disaster of our time. I think it is important that the younger generations learn and grow from this disaster. In one middle school in Louisiana, 8th grade students are learning about the oil spill by making their own. Students are stimulating oil clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico, using a 10 gallon aquarium and an eye-dropped filled with cooking oil and Hershey’s cocoa powder. The exercise is meant to answer any question the kids may have about the science behind that cleanup, and how it affects their lives. WHY AREN'T MORE SCHOOL LEARNING ABOUT THIS OIL SPILL THIS WAY? That is my question.
First off, it is pure genius to stimulate the young mind with hand on activities such as building and interacting with models in order to understand a situation. This oil spill reenactment done by 8TH GRADERS is a perfect way to help younger generations learn about environmental issues today. I am one of those crazy people who believe in global warming, and feel that there are measures we as a nation can do to stop it. I am some what of an environmentalist, I truly believe that our environment is extremely fragile, and needs to be nursed back to health after this oil disaster. Kids should be learning and growing from our mistakes, they are our future right? If they cannot learn what not to do, how will they ever learn what to do? These are our future leaders people, c'mon!
I think that funding should be invested in teacher younger generations about the Gulf of Mexico cleanup, and quite possibly involve them! It would be a great learning opportunity for these kids. Maybe they would even have some ideas about how to prevent such accidents from happening, nobody seems to have any lately.
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