school gardens

**S* H* <s*@saxonholt.com>**

Did anyone else go apoplectic like me seeing the current article,  
"Cultivating Failure" in Atlantic Magazine, that schoolyard gardening  
is a failure ?!

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/school-yard-garden

  I suspect the author is not a parent and/or buys into the sorry  
assumption that children just need more academics to learn how the  
world works and their place in it.  Apparently the author did not  
interview any children or teachers.  I suppose controversy sells but  
having been a garden instructor and having my own children benefit  
from a fully integrated gardening program in their school years, no  
one can tell me that gardening is a waste of resources.

Argghh - the narrow mindedness  . . . from the same mentality, no  
doubt, of those who believe standardized testing has standards we  
should want our children to aspire to...

Saxon

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