| How about a high school class that takes students from the inner city, most of them from poor families, to the butcher shop to show them where the meat comes from, and to farms to show them where their food is grown? And has them run large gardens to grow food for themselves and their families?
They also read articles by writers like Michael Pollan and Wendell Berry and watch documentaries like Food, Inc. The teacher has them work at a farmers' market and do volunteer work with the food-challenged.
This class is run out of the Automotive High School in Brooklyn and is one of the most popular classes offered. Perhaps because the teacher also takes them to a farm where they get to make apple cider and apple pies, feed the pigs, and sweep up cow manure. In short the students learn that their food doesn't just come from packages in the supermarket and from McDonalds and Burger King.
This sounds like a really neat course that I wish had been offered decades ago when I was in high school. If I had taken it, I might have chosen to go into farming myself.
Chek it out in the NYTimes at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02... |
