Teachers and students stage mock climate classes in Whitehall
by Jonathan Watts from Environment | The Guardian on (#49P9C)
Traffic blocked at Department for Education during call for national curriculum changes
More than 100 teachers, academics and students have blocked traffic and staged mock climate classes outside the Department for Education in a protest against the underplaying of environmental problems in the national curriculum.
The demonstrators - who carried Teach the Truth, Rebel for Life and Climate: More Important Than Brexit banners - urged the government to make the climate and ecological crisis an educational priority.
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