{"id":16936,"date":"2016-07-12T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=16936"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T04:35:00","slug":"rochester-river-school-promoting-vegan-ethic-educating-generations-solutionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/rochester-river-school-promoting-vegan-ethic-educating-generations-solutionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rochester River School:  Promoting A Vegan Ethic While Educating Generations Of Solutionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06720.jpeg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-16938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06720-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"The Rochester River School\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06720-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06720-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06720-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06720.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Rochester, New York, has a litany of shocking statistics. Rochester has the highest rate of extreme poverty in the U.S. for a similarly-sized city. The Rochester City School District\u2019s student graduation rates for African American males (9%) and\u00a0Latino\u00a0males (10%) are routinely the lowest in the United States, while overall high school graduation rates are the worst in New York. According to recent studies, Rochester-born \u201cbabies are dying at a rate two times higher than the national average, and \u2026 mothers of color are three times more likely than white mothers to lose their babies before their first birthday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Things have to change. We imagine a different, brighter future through education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">I have been working with a number of people during the past\u00a0two years\u00a0to create a new urban K-12 school in Rochester called the Rochester River School.<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> The founders of the Rochester River School think that our sustainable future needs generations of Solutionaries\u2014young people who have been taught to solve problems in strategic, comprehensive ways that do the most good and least harm to people, other species, and the environment. The Rochester River School aims to create Solutionaries through a Humane Education curriculum (human rights, environmental stewardship, animal ethics, and cultural concerns). Our students will learn knowledge, skills, understandings, and dispositions to create changes, both large and small, and to replace injustice throughout the world with far-reaching justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">One specific system the Rochester River School community will support is the waterways of Western New York.\u00a0The Genesee River, Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, and the Finger Lakes, and the thousands of species that make these waterways their homes, are invaluable natural resources. Even young children can understand the injustice of possible extinction and the importance of conservation. One early project the Rochester River School students will tackle is to learn about and support the ongoing re-establishment of the New York State insect, the nine-spotted ladybug. Teaching students through relevant, real-world projects based on the intersection of science, mathematics, early literacy, art, and social sciences ensures joyous yet rigorous learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Through the Rochester River School\u2019s Billion Bugs Project, which we plan to launch when the school opens in 2018, students will grow plants and rear and release one billion nine-spotted ladybugs (the New York State insect) on local organic farms. Such activities will enable even kindergarten students to engage in the following activities and subject areas: biology, art, field note taking and ecological journaling, community outreach and lobbying, math, and agriculture, to name a few. The Billion Bugs Project is not only about education but also about real world conservation projects that can actually help local and regional farmers with pest management, while reintroducing a species of lady beetle that was once thought to have been extirpated and is now endangered. The Rochester River School\u2019s unique programs and curricula should help alleviate the Nature Deficit Disorder, help to create active \u201cdoers,\u201d and prepare students for both college and career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Another unique way the Rochester River School will develop Solutionaries is through a vegan school-nutrition program. We believe access to a plant-based diet, even just during school hours, will help children develop healthier bodies, stronger minds, and may even help them overcome the allergies and attentional issues that plague so many students. In addition, introducing children and their families to new foods early on may impact their food choices, and therefore their reliance on animals as food, for their lifetimes. <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">The Rochester River School will be the first <i>public<\/i> school in the United States to provide completely vegan snacks, breakfasts, lunches, and curriculum<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We know that many City of Rochester children either go to school hungry or having eaten the wrong foods. We plan to feed our students healthy plant-based foods as part of the school\u2019s vegan health and nutrition program. If we are successful, we expect to get our students growing food, preparing and cooking meals in our school\u2019s kitchen, and eventually selling produce through the school\u2019s urban farm and working CSA. We imagine that some of our students will take home the produce they have grown, share the knowledge that they have learned with their families and community, and create gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16939\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joel-2.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-16939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16939\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joel-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Rochester River School\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joel-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joel-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joel-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Helfrich, Co-Founder<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We are supporting a vegan curriculum and nutrition program at the Rochester River School for several reasons. For starters, we think that a vegan diet is the most sustainable. According to every major environmental indicator (soil quality and erosion, water use and contamination, land use, waste, wildlife loss, species extinction, rainforest destruction\/deforestation, ocean animal depletion and acidification, and greenhouse gas emissions, specifically methane and nitrous oxide [link: http:\/\/www.cowspiracy.com\/facts\/]), animal agriculture is not sustainable. People everywhere are beginning to realize that \u201chappy meat\/cows,\u201d \u201csustainable beef\/fishing,\u201d and \u201chumane slaughter\u201d are myths. Indeed, there is no such thing as sustainable nor humane animal agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We also recognize that scientists, nutritionists, athletes, and even cardiologists are realizing that the growing literature and evidence points to a vegan diet as the best for human health. Perhaps most significantly, a vegan diet is the best diet for non-human animals. And then there is a large and growing social justice component as more people acknowledge that all oppression is linked. Intersectional social justice requires that we take a holistic approach toward ending oppression, suffering, and inequality throughout society. In our work, we are reminded of and inspired by many nineteenth-century first-wave feminists, African American and Latino leaders, and committed social justice activists who have followed vegetarian and vegan diets: Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, and Dick Gregory, as well as many athletes and celebrities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We expect that our proposed school, its curricula, vegan nutrition program, and the athletic teams we will support such as rowing and cycling, will be differentiators for our urban, largely African American and Latino, student population. We expect to give each student a refillable water bottle, necessary gear, and bicycle when they enter the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0Rochester River Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is learning lessons about Solutionary education from New York City\u2019s Harbor School, The Institute for Humane Education, Common Ground Charter School in Connecticut, and MUSE School CA, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Please support our proposed school:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">LIKE and SHARE us with your friends on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">Complete our online COMMUNITY SURVEY (and encourage others to do the same)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">Reach out to other people to spread our message<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">DONATE to the Rochester River Foundation<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">ENDORSE, SUPPORT, or PARTNER with the Rochester River School<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s5\">For more information, visit: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterriverschool.org\/\"  rel=\"external nofollow\"><span class=\"s6\">www.rochesterriverschool.org<\/span><\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rochesterriverschool\"  rel=\"external nofollow\"><span class=\"s6\">www.facebook.com\/rochesterriverschool<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s5\">Contact us: <a href=\"mailto:info@rochesterriverschool.org\"><span class=\"s7\">info@rochesterriverschool.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Please help us raise some money for the proposed Rochester River School. We just launched an online fundraiser ($10 minimum contribution), so please forward to anyone that you know. Any donation is tax-deductible through our 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Rochester River Foundation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdrise.com\/help-open-the-rochester-river-school-the-first-vegan-public-school-in-the-united-states\"  target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.crowdrise.com\/help-open-the-rochester-river-school-the-first-vegan-public-school-in-the-united-states&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1470802592551000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGp5Jn4PZhRE67_y7X9skSMxGZg6g\" rel=\"external nofollow\">https:\/\/www.crowdrise.com\/help<wbr \/>-open-the-rochester-river-scho<wbr \/>ol-the-first-vegan-public-scho<wbr \/>ol-in-the-united-states<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also, perhaps consider joining this campaign as a &#8220;Team Member,&#8221; where you can set a fundraising goal and reach out to family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and like-minded individuals who might have a few dollars to put toward our efforts.<\/div>\n<p class=\"p7\">\n<p class=\"p2\"><em><span class=\"s1\">About the author: Joel Helfrich is a father, historian, vegan, and cofounder of the Rochester River School and Rochester River Foundation, as well as the foundation\u2019s vice-chair. If you ever visit Rochester, New York, please eat at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/reviews\/the-red-fern-rochester-42760\"  target=\"_blank\">The Red Fern<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/reviews\/vive-bistro-and-bakery-rochester-55773\"  target=\"_blank\">Vive<\/a>,\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/reviews\/natural-oasis-cafe-rochester-16082\"  target=\"_blank\">Natural Oasis <\/a>\u2014all great vegan restaurants!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, New York, has a litany of shocking statistics. Rochester has the highest rate of extreme poverty in the U.S. for a similarly-sized city. The Rochester City School District\u2019s student graduation rates for African American males (9%) and\u00a0Latino\u00a0males (10%) are routinely the lowest in the United States, while overall high school graduation rates are the worst in New York. According to recent studies, Rochester-born \u201cbabies are dying at a rate two times higher than the national average, and \u2026 mothers of color are three times more likely than white mothers to lose their babies before their first birthday.\u201d Things have to change. We imagine a different, brighter future through education. I have been working with a number of people during the past\u00a0two years\u00a0to create a new urban K-12 school in Rochester called the Rochester River School. The founders of the Rochester River School think that our sustainable future needs generations of Solutionaries\u2014young people who have been taught to solve problems in strategic, comprehensive ways that do the most good and least harm to people, other species, and the environment. 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Rochester has the highest rate of extreme poverty in the U.S. for a similarly-sized city. The Rochester City School District\u2019s student graduation rates for African American males (9%) and\u00a0Latino\u00a0males (10%) are routinely the lowest in the United States, while overall high school graduation rates are the worst in New York. According to recent studies, Rochester-born \u201cbabies are dying at a rate two times higher than the national average, and \u2026 mothers of color are three times more likely than white mothers to lose their babies before their first birthday.\u201d Things have to change. We imagine a different, brighter future through education. I have been working with a number of people during the past\u00a0two years\u00a0to create a new urban K-12 school in Rochester called the Rochester River School. The founders of the Rochester River School think that our sustainable future needs generations of Solutionaries\u2014young people who have been taught to solve problems in strategic, comprehensive ways that do the most good and least harm to people, other species, and the environment. 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