For years, Bonnie Goehring has lived on a farm in the Blackhawk School District, where her three children and several of her grandchildren studied agricultural science at the high school. But her granddaughter Jennifer will be the first in her family unable to take the same courses as her father and brothers. The Blackhawk school board voted in March 2012 to eliminate its vocational agricultural science program, effective for the upcoming school year. The program included courses in subjects such as horticultural studies, food sciences and landscaping. Some students took only one or a few courses as electives, while others took all of the courses and completed the agricultural program....
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