Don't know what goes into the education degrees, but I can say that it was absolutely not a "requirement" in public education lesson plans that I know of before this.
It certainly was added onto most people's science classes when they learned about how the weather works or somewhere else it was kinda relevant, but it always seemed to be the teacher's discretion on it as a "modern climate change" topic rather than being forced upon them to teach it.
If it was, it would have come up a lot in standardized testing, which is basically what all K-12 lesson plans are built backwards from. But because its such a loose canon that nobody can ever agree on The Science of for more than a week, it never made the cut on such a bureaucratic testing process.
Don't know what goes into the education degrees, but I can say that it was absolutely not a "requirement" in public education lesson plans that I know of before this.
It certainly was added onto most people's science classes when they learned about how the weather works or somewhere else it was kinda relevant, but it always seemed to be the teacher's discretion on it as a "modern climate change" topic rather than being forced upon them to teach it.
If it was, it would have come up a lot in standardized testing, which is basically what all K-12 lesson plans are built backwards from. But because its such a loose canon that nobody can ever agree on The Science of for more than a week, it never made the cut on such a bureaucratic testing process.