Richard Kahn Response

From Richard Kahn's Towards Ecopedagogy the quote "45 million Americans think the ocean is a fresh source of water" stands out a lot to me. Form this you can tell that many Americans are not well educated. It is obvious that the oceans are salt water and that salt water is not fresh water. The way the school system is now set up Americans are not receiving every thing they need to be successful in life. What we need is a stricter grading policy to pass a class. This way people would not be able to get by with only know 75% of the information in the class. The policy should be changed so to get credit for a class a student must earn a grade of 90% or higher. This way students would be forced to study in order to pass classes. In  many situations in the current system many student are getting by with out even trying and will make a passing grade. With a new system where you must make 90% or higher to pass every student will have to challenge themselves in ever class in order to pass it.