Some classes of as many as 100 students are conducted under a big tree near the school buildings.
Many said they were angry that the students, dubbed the Jena 6, were being treated more harshly than three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on Jena High School property.
On returning home from school, he would lounge against a nearby tree and watch.
Rising school attendance, environmental progress - such as tree-planting and river bank strengthening - are all welcome improvements.
The school is planning to erect a memorial bench and tree in memory of Kyle, as well as a cup dedicated to inter-house football competitions.
The parish council has just handed over 14 trees to mark tree planting week, which are now in the school grounds.
On a tour of the palace's school, Charles met pupils in a reception class, before planting a tree in the garden to mark his visit.
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"Schools understand that students want to leave their mark on the way out the door, but a better way to do that is to take up a donation and plant an oak tree, " said Mark Goulet, a lawyer for the school board in Smithville, Texas, where students last month were suspended after a cafeteria food fight involving burritos.
"It was the last apple to fall from the tree, " says Samuel Hayes, a finance professor at Harvard Business School.
If a group of teens hung a noose on a tree, and the principal recommended to expel them, and then the school board overruled them, what would you say about that?
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In September 2006, as the school year kicked off, a black Jena High School student asked the vice principal if he and some friends could sit under an oak tree where the white students typically congregated.
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