Re: school gardens

**M* S* <m*@gmail.com>**

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Saxon Holt <sholt@saxonholt.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>

Thank you Saxon, for pointing this out. The tone of the piece is nasty! One
> can feel the venom the author is carrying. No stopping to smell the roses
> for this woman; she seems oblivious to them as well as to the concept of a
> balanced education.

 I'm surprised it got past the editors. Yuck!

Miranda

>
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