Geography Deserves Place in Curriculum
The recent article on the possible dropping of a geography requirement in the Huntington Beach Union High School District only serves to illustrate the educational faddism at the expense of sound programs that is becoming prevalent in public education today.
The geography class in question is only one semester, but this 18 weeks of instruction is critical in today’s world.
The need for our young people to perceive the world holistically is, and will remain, a critical issue as we enter the 21st Century.
Knowledge of world geography has become indispensable to our understanding of the full meaning and scope of world events.
For public schools to teach less geography to students already perceived as being geographically ignorant would seem unsound when the need for more geographic literacy is indicated every day.
G.F. WINTERS
Huntington Beach
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