His class attendance went from 40% to 93%. Because of a garden?

[kwassa]

4. A local teacher did the same thing. Silver Spring, MD.

The man was a saint, in my book.

He was devoted to helping the immigrant kids in front of him, teaching in Spanish in an elementary immersion program. He created gardens behind the elementary school for the same purpose as the story above.

And, as the universe is unfair, he died suddenly one day in his mid 50s of a massive heart attack, just before taking his special needs son to an operation at Johns Hopkins. His wife had died of cancer 6 months before this. A horrible story.