Save the Earth

I watched a Hari Sreenivasan report on CBS News about teachers and parents shopping for their students going "green". An idealistic young instructor of middle school English was interviewed buying classroom supplies and she really believed, was firmly convicted, that her little shopping expedition was so enviro-friendly that she was "saving the earth" which she said was her most important job. For an educator to be so misdirected and filled with hubris is sad. Her mission as an English teacher presumably should be teaching English, grammar and syntax, construction of sentences and paragraphs,how to write an essay, or at least how to read our lingua franca. But our young didac is convinced it is not her job to teach these already daunting tasks; she must save the earth. To earnestly think your efforts have so great an impact must be terrifying but make an individual feel mighty powerful. So sadly deluded-an individual's ability to manipulate climate is not even negligible, it is non-existent. I am not saying that we should flagrantly waste or live for the joy of joining the profligate, as conserve is the root of conservative, but to have such horrors in the classroom as this egoist idiot and it is no wonder Johnny can't read. She should not revel so much in her secret climate-shaping talents and focus on diagramming the next sentence.