Caitlin Flanagan School Gardens Analysis

Caitlin Flanagan has given her thoughts and options over a garden program that seems to be taking over schools today. This very program has been causing what seems to be an uproar as years seems to past by and children, as well parents, are showing the very effect of what will happen if this program is still going on. It has become known that these schools with this program have placed it as the center of attention and push everything else away as kids seemed to do more hard labor more than learning and preparing for life outside of high school. In all together, it needs to stop, simple as that, but yet not as it seems as schools are showing up with gardens for their kids to work on and to focus more towards the garden. Education is an important …show more content…
As a journalist and author, Caitlin Flanagan has pointed this out clearly as she talks about Alice Waters and the starting of school gardens. Throughout the essay, strong feelings can be felt as Flanagan has pointed many questions and worries towards the idea of having kids in school only focus on the gardens more than learning math, reading, history, or anything that can help them live a better life in the future or to help them prepare for college. She also had questioned the idea of how will some immigrants feel about their kid working at school instead of giving the education that the parents had come here for as it’s a sign of a better life that they had dreamed of. Her full attention is all on this and the very California public schools that had started it all. The system is a failure in her eyes as kids are seen dropping out before graduation as cases of obesity and type 2 diabetes seems to be growing each day. The system is, in all, just broken and needs to be fix to help these kids grow and able to prove the needs need in their …show more content…
Gardens are lovely and fun activities to do that can grow close relationships with others. However, when getting together is during the school day can make one wonder and question the program hard. Questions such as, “what are they learning” or “what is the goal of an education, of what was once called book learning?” These are questions that are unanswered but needs to be asked by many as kids are affected by this. Low-income homes and unemployment family can always be a caused by kids not being able to get the education they need to get a better life. This can cause many other problems as families won’t be able to afford to get certain thing such as fresh produce. Obesity will soon become a thing to the families who can’t afford anything healthy for the body unless they go to a food bank. Kids are dropping out of schools causing them to become one of these families who just can’t afford much. There’s too much at stake when it comes to these gardens as they have been the center of everything for the school and it just needs to stop. Some parents, such as immigrants, would agree to this as they didn’t let their kid go to school to enjoy hard labor, but to get a better education than what they did. School is for learning not to enjoy hard labor and having that be the center of