Editorials
Every year, students at Farnsworth Middle School in Guilderland volunteer to raise butterflies, tend to native plants, and educate the public about both.
Some years, the culmination of their labors — raising monarch butterflies from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly — is a gathering in the garden of their school’s courtyard where they chant, “Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go to Mexico” as they release the bright orange butterflies they’ve raised.