NYC bans pesticides in parks with push from unlikely force: children

Seven years ago, a kindergarten teacher at PS 290 in Manhattan was following her students’ curiosity about the origins of food when she led them in a role play on how toxic pesticides harm people, ecosystems and even — to the 5-year-olds’ horror — turtles like their class pet, Soccer Ball.

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