Editor’s Note: The following are letters written by students in fourth to sixth grades at Beach Haven School as part of a school project exploring activism.
Toxic Lawns
To the Editor:
One day I was in a restaurant parking lot next to some grass and saw someone spraying weed killer all over. We went inside the restaurant and ate. When we came out it was raining. I went to get in the car and I saw a rainbow on the ground. I got in the car and thought to myself, “Was this from the weed killer?”
June 8, 2016
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