Children for an Honest Education Campaign by John Borowski Other articles by John Borowski The Pesticide Industry Enters the Classrooms Chemicals 101: Selling Anti-Environmentalism to Kids Commercialism in a Can John Borowski has been teaching Marine Science, Environmental Biology and Earth Science for 21 years. Society's 55 million school-aged children represent our nation's most treasured and valuable resource, the foundation of a sustainable and civil future. This generation of children is now being targeted by powerful interests, who look to manipulate their education, manufacture their values, and flood our schools with educational materials that are no more than attempts to minimize environmental concerns and push corporate agendas. Environmental education, in particular, is under full-scale assault. Multinational corporations are designing and distributing environmental curricula that is professionally produced, easy to use, often free, and incredibly biased in the favor of industry. The Children for an HONEST education campaign, looks to expose this little discussed public issue, provide teachers and their students with scientifically sound alternatives to utilize in the classroom and raise a call to arms, in the name of our children. The objective of this flood of corporate sponsored teaching materials is simple: protect industries that despoil the planet and put the brakes on the emergence of environmental awareness among young people. Surreptitious public relations campaigns and deceptive advertising are battling for the hearts and minds of our children. And schools, those sacrosanct places of civic learning, are the last and relatively commercial free places in our society, and must not be for sale. The message of the campaign is clear and leaves no room for compromise. No community, let alone society, can consider itself moral and robust if its children are pawns for profit. We sincerely ask you, to join ranks with us, to lead a nation-wide battle to free our children from the chains of overt and pernicious corporate PR campaigns in the classroom. How can you help? To learn, please read on. Click here.