Can you imagine sending your child to a public school where students invest a third of their day outdoors — and a lot of that time in the surrounding woods?
In April, CBS
This Morning asked me to visit Chattahoochee Hills elementary school, outside Atlanta, which serves primarily low-income children. One six-year-old boy, after spending an hour on one of the hiking trails/outdoor classrooms, rushed up to his teacher and exclaimed, “There’s so much
nature our here and I only have two eyes and one brain and I think it’s going to
explode!”
This remarkable school has shown more academic improvement, on average, across all subjects, than any other school in Fulton County, Georgia...