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Racing pigeons help students learn BOTHELL.. Wash (AIM Sounds at VVoodm Elementary School: Children in class and on th»> playground, and cooing racing pigeons in their loft in n comer of the building Racing pigeons at an el«tnentar\ school? "I'd never heard of it either,” savs fifth-grade teacher Bryan Lowe But then he ran ai ross some pigeon fanciers while tapping into a computer net work and dei ided to keep racing pigeons as an educational tool. "I knew I could teach a thousand subjei ts with something like this, het a use the kids really like working with living things, he said "Thu thought of having birds, especially homing pigeons, was very appealing, even though I knew there would tie nothing in the si hool budget for anything like that." Lowe contacted Herb C.artmell of Woodinvtlle. promotional materials chairman of the Amerii an Pigeon Union, a national group of rm ing pigeon owners Lowe wanted to know how well the pigeons would take to being handled frequently by i Ini dren. "They're raised from the beginning to endure a lot of handling, so all we had to do was lew h the kids to he gentle with them, like tiles would any animals." Cartmell said Cartmell gave Lowe sis young birds to start his racing team As an ads iser. he visits the school regularly to i heck the hirsts health ami answer questions As far as 1 know, there is no other si bool in the c ountry that has racing pigeons living on the grounds This appears to he n first." he said Girtnioll said he’li probably train this first group to rai r hei ause they 11 he ready during the sum nier He intends to show next year's class how to tram more lords so the s< him! t .m build up its team " 1 hey II he ready to r.e e them sometime next fall." he said l-owe had no trouble persuading Principal Paul Bodnar to allow his i iass to keep pigeons oni u the principal had nssiiram es that the birds would pose no health problems and had a delmite teaching purpose A parent used his own money to huv peri ties dowels, si reams, nest hoses and feed Tor the past couple of months, students have taken turns each day measuring out feed and grit, and then weighing the birds to che< k weight gam, and i hurting the results. 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