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BCMS Student-Activists get a Political Response

The Bulldog students are fighting mad about the prospect of losing some of their national forest…and they have connected with their best shots. Today, they are featured in a New York Times article:

NEWPORT, N.C., May 4 — “What is the deal with cutting down the Croatan National Forest?” the letter began. “How would you like it if we cut down some trees around your house?”

A federal official’s proposal to sell land in places like the Croatan National Forest in North Carolina has brought protests across the nation.

Haley Wester, a sixth grader at the Broad Creek Middle School here, was voicing the sentiments of her classmates and North Carolina’s top officials when she wrote Mark Rey, under secretary of agriculture, two months ago to protest his proposal to sell 309,000 acres of National Forest land across the country, including nearly 10,000 in North Carolina. (Read more)

Curriculum is at its best when content knowledge and skills are passionately and creatively applied to solve real-world problems. Kudos to their teacher Mr. Dave Holland for designing the learning opportunity. Kudos to the sixth grade science students for doing their bit to rock the planet!