Maine fifth graders' onions - Students at the Albert S. Hall School in Waterville were excited to finally harvest the fruit of their labor on Tuesday last week, but their excitement soon turned into disappointment when they discovered that all the 100 onions they have so carefully grown were stolen.
According to several Maine fifth graders' onions reports, the yellow variety bulb were planted by the students last spring, and the children were looking forward to gather the produce, much to their surprise however, someone had already collected the vegetables before them.
"We looked at the onions and the tops were all dried," school teacher Mary Dunn reportedly told CentralMaine.com of the Maine fifth graders' onions. "We said, 'Tuesday after Labor Day we'll harvest them,' and we went out Tuesday and they were all gone - the whole bed."
The students and parents took turns watering and weeding the garden throughout the summer, teacher Dunn said.
They planned to give half the Maine fifth graders' onions to a homeless shelter and half to the school kitchen to be used in school lunches, the Associated Press reported.
"This was different, because this was the first time some of the produce was going to go to the homeless shelter," she said, while adding that the students need to know where their food is coming from and what they're eating.
Student Ashley Harwood called the Maine fifth graders' onions theft "kind of depressing" 9NEWS has learned, while fellow student Hannah Hall said the whole class was sad.
Teacher Dunn however, is trying to turn the whole Maine fifth graders' onions theft incident into a lesson-filled experience, noting that the children must all come together when things go wrong or don't end up as they planned.
It's a "life lesson,"the optimistic teacher said.
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