Do You Find This Offensive
One of the adults in my house was offended by this reading assignment that my son brought home. Tell me what you think, please
Frogs in Danger
Do frogs have problems? Make-believe frogs usually do. They solve them like you and I do. Real frogs, however, have a problem that isn’t so easy to solve.
Frogs are in danger from things that people do. They are dying out. This is happening all over the world.
One reason frogs are dying out is that their homes are in water that is polluted. Frogs are sensitive to their environment. This is not a problem if the water is clean. Poisons in water, however, can kill frogs. Poisoned water also hurts their eggs. If the eggs are poisoned, then new frogs cannot be born.
Some land frogs live on is also being destroyed. Like other animals, frogs require a certain habitat in order to thrive. Many frogs live in wetlands. However, wetlands are disappearing.
People are destroying wetlands by building on them. Now there are homes and shopping centers where there used to be wetlands. Destroying wetlands destroys frogs.
Frogs can live on land and in the water. But they can only live if people protect their environment.
Let me know, would you be offended if your child brought this home to read?
I don’t think I’d be offended. But I would freely discuss the questions such articles beg: What do we do with people then? What are the practical ways we can improve how we take care of our planet? What are the forces that drive us to destroy things? How can we practically address these issues of time, money, resources?
Such articles are, I think, far too biased in a direction that, while certainly legitimate in their concern, lack a solid pragmatic line of reasoning on the other side.
~Luke