Re: 10.5
- From: "don findlay" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Mar 2007 06:49:07 -0700
Jo Schaper wrote:
jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx wrote:
There is place on the Atlantic shore (I can't remember the town)
which has been getting flooded out every nor'easter. One
woman was just interviewed. She said she had just finished
rebuilding and refurnishing her house and it's underwater again.
She's complaining that "the town" has done nothing to prevent
this. I keep being astonished at how stupid people can be.
/BAH
Not me. US education system has very few high school level earth science
courses, unlike chemistry, biology and even physics.
I think the word would not be stupid, but ignorant--as in clueless.
I would like to include a geological skill set (reading a topo map,
knowing the difference between granite and limestone, basic natural
hazards and hydrology info to start) but none of this exists in state
graduation standards for most places, so "physical science" becomes a
science for dummies course, aggravating the situation.
PS.
You lot complaing about the state of teaching geology in schools is
exactly the same as the woman complaining about her house being
flooded. No different.
.
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