A headline you won't read in the USA any time soon (re global warming)

All pupils to be given lessons in climate change
Children will learn about the dangers faced by the environment - and what they can do about it

By Richard Garner, Education Editor
UK Independent

Published: 02 February 2007

Children will be put on the front line of the battle to save the planet under radical proposals to shake up the way that geography is taught in schools.

The plans, to be published on Monday, will ensure that, for the first time, issues such as climate change and global warming are at the heart of the school timetable. Pupils will also be taught to understand their responsibilities as consumers - and weigh up whether they should avoid travel by air to reduce CO2 emissions and shun food produce imported from the other side of the world because of its impact on pollution.

Details of the new initiative emerged as global warming is thrust to the top of the political agenda today with the publication in Paris of a long-awaited report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Written by more than 2,000 scientists, the report is billed as the most definitive assessment yet of climate change.

Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, said urgent action needed to be taken to avoid the worst-case scenarios and that educating children about the dangers of climate change was vital. "Children have a dual role as consumers and influencers," he said. "Educating them about the impact of getting an extra pair of trainers for fashion's sake is as important as the pressure they put on their parents not to buy a gas-guzzling family car."

more... http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2208256.ece

I don't want to be mean, but I suppose in the US, one could always find at least one nut-job parent like this Frost guy who would demand that an "alternative view" should be taught in school...
And this is not about people being stupid, the reason is that something like global warming got politicized so much in the US that it's apparently becoming another left vs right issue.

It used to be one was a liberal if one believed the
government has a role in mitigating the inequities
inherent in the capitalist system.

Now, you're a liberal if you believe in gravity.

bad publicity for their SUVs.

Besides, do you want petulant children lecturing their soccer moms when they comes to pick up their little dears after school in a gas-guzzling tanks?