Letter: Schools need crisis curriculum for students

The normal school curriculum must be set aside and replaced with a crisis curriculum.

There are just too many crises going on, too many questions to be answered, problems to be solved. Too many people — and animals — are getting seriously injured or losing their lives. Too many flowers and forests destroyed. Too much pollution in too many places. Too much violence. We need to figure out which problem areas can be fixed, or at least improved upon.

Young people have the time that most adults don’t have. Our children spend seven and a half hours (or more) at school five days a week. Young people care about things; much more than we adults realize. Young people are full of creative ideas. Every one of them has some kind of unique skill/s that they can bring to the table. Let’s allow our young people to learn what’s really going on in our nation (admittedly that will be difficult) and throughout the world; and let’s let interested students work together to develop Solution Plans; action plans to alleviate — or at least improve — some of our many problem areas.

Our young people are capable of doing amazing things — if only we adults will allow them to. If we want to survive, as a nation and as a species, we need to do this! If we want to survive, we cannot operate at the pace, nor the effectiveness level, of our “high level” elected officials!

Thanks,

Roger
Ithaca