In Michigan, if a bill in the state legislature passes, drivers' ed students will be getting lessons on environmentalism along with the usual rules of the road and how to pilot a car. Manny Lopez of the Detroit News isn't happy about it:
[The] bill that would mandate environmental activism into the curriculum. Students learning to drive would be forced to spend some of their time in class learning about "the importance of carpooling and using public transportation," as well as "identifying the attributes of a fuel-efficient vehicle," and "recycling vehicle parts and fluids," among other secondary lessons that have nothing to do with captaining a two-ton machine down the freeway.
It's not as if children don't have to sit through enough environmental propaganda in schools as it is. And in a program that parents have to pay for, they will get more indoctrination.
The bill is stuck in committee, so so far this isn't the law. But don't count on it not passing and not coming to a state where you live.
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