Today’s subject: “How to Grow Cucumbers.”
Javari Brister, a fourth-grader at Milwaukee Environmental Sciences, gave me a lesson in this when I visited the school at 6600 W. Melvina St. last week to see the results of projects done by students from kindergarten through seventh grade at the 308-student charter school, authorized to operate by the Milwaukee School Board.
How to fix potholes, including those in an alley near the school. A sophisticated water conservation system, built in partnership with a roster of agencies and nonprofits. Plans for a “pinnacle playground” for the school, including efforts to get grants to build it. The life cycle of bees. The work was good, and oral presentations by students as visitors came around were impressive.