An Education That Includes Horses, Honey, Corn and Manure
Mt. Greenwood's Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences gives students a wealth of on-the-job training.
Oh sure, Mt. Greenwood’s Joe Gasparas goes to regular classrooms that have desks, books and blackboards. But the sophomore also gets his schooling in a room filled with manure, shovels and animals. Life for Gasparas and 599 other students at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences features both bookwork and practical work, which could find them planting flowers, caring for animals or selling fresh vegetables. Gasparas said he has learned a lot about the care of horses, cows, pigs and chickens through some classwork and as a worker in the barn, which sometimes isn’t the most pleasant of environments. “You get used to the smell after a while,” he said. “It takes a while, but you do. I don’t even notice it. We clean out the pens. We…
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Dan Lambert
11:54 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
It's so neat to have something like this right in our backyard. more ›