A Child Who Will Not Be Left Behind Speaks Up About the Sequoia Habitat.
A Round of Irony

A third grade student listens to the news during the week of 2/10 and hears about the controversy surrounding the Sequoia Trees. Without any parental direction, he finds a piece of paper, makes his own lines and begins to write about how he feels about the Bald eagle, and a possible habitat like the Sequoias. He has taken his first step to becoming a concerned, active citizen.

With money received from a National Geographic Grant, an at risk English language learner visits the Sequoias -- he now gets it -- does the president?
Without any federal or state funds, without any testing, without any explicit direct instruction, a child develops the knowledge to care for our future. Can that be measured in a test?

He Writes:
Birds like eagles and other birds sing nicely. A bald eagle is an American bird. Some birds are carnivores and some are herbivores. But I think the best bird of all is the eagle. The eagle has nice eyes and I think they are cool. But what is not cool is that people want to cut down the Sequoia National Forest where the bald eagle may live. I like it when I went to Sequoia. The End - By David


#3 - We took the students out to our Lake Ming and saw a bald eage perched in a tree for an hour. (Essay was written before we went on field trip)