Students learn that goats must be milked on time, every single day. Similar lessons also apply to their children, school officials say. There's a whole gamut of opportunities in agriscience. I have kids who are actually thinking about going to school for veterinary science. Weertz's agriscience class is an elective that meets daily for 100 minutes for 10 weeks at the school, which uses the quarter system, rather than semesters.
Students follow a textbook and do experiments, just like in a standard science class.
The academy is for girls 13 to 19 and has five nurseries for their children in the old Chaney School near I-96 at Martin Luther King Boulevard. We're just like them, only more complicated. Some students learn better hands-on. The animals are kept outdoors in a small courtyard on one side of the school. The cow, for example, was donated by a farmer during a field trip.