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CMV: School Children should have a Class Mandatorily exposing Them to Nature

It is part of my view that nature is an integral part to the well-being of a human. There are no cities in the world that do not have any greenery present in their boundaries, as city planners know how important nature is to the welfare of an individual. However, living in a city with greenery does not obligate people to take advantage of that fact. 

A stressed New Yorker may not have the time to go to Central Park or the many botanical gardens present in its boroughs, but we can still say with certainty they are exposed to nature at some point in their life. 

This view mainly focuses on the economically-disadvantaged. Yes, a child in Manhattan will be able to go to the “wilderness” of Central Park, but a child in the Bronx might not be as privileged, and will most likely  not be able to experience the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden.  An inherent respect of the natural world can only be provided if one can experience nature. If a person is not able to go out into nature, they are also not garnering a respect for it. 

A person in a city might grow up without having respect for nature. As climate change looms over the horizon, we need our children to learn how to care for nature. It is easy to remove an individual’s sense of obligation from the world if they aren’t surrounded by it, or artificially removed from it. What is the difference between that concept and nature?

A class exposing children to different wildlife in their area or even plants would remediate this situation. The only foreseeable issue is funding, but that shouldn’t change the fact that children should have an unalienable right to enjoy nature. 

If we look at people who destroy the environment with no regard for what they’re doing, potentially this idea of respect implanted as child would remove their apathy of a world they’re killing. A CEO who only cares about profit and not the wildlife they’re killing off with pollution, would maybe instead resort to different policies about the environment if they cared that they’re killing foxes that saw scampering around as children.

I believe that my perspective has been melded by living in an area where nature is readily-available and abundant, and also having been exposed to the works of transcendentalists such as Thoreau and Emerson who argued some of the same concepts I express. 

Change my view!
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1. Recess already exists. Outside play after lunch already exists. Just create a park in the school yard.
2. There already isn't enough time to fit in many important academic subjects (e.g., art, music, computer programming, languages)
3. Kids don't need to be forced to go into nature, they do so voluntarily.
4. There doesn't have to be a class. There can just be field trips to parks.
5. There are lots of after school groups and clubs that do this.
6. Parents regularly take kids to parks as children.
7. Classes like biology, physics, chemistry, etc. expose kids to the laws of nature. Nature isn't just greenery and trees. Everything is part of nature, and learning about nature from those perspective is arguably more important than just walking around outside.