Vincent Van Goat lives at New Jersey's first public-school therapy farm
Absecon has New Jersey's first therapy farm inside a public school. One of the animals students meet there is a goat named Vincent Van Goat.
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Absecon's public schools have a therapy farm, the first in a New Jersey public school, New Jersey 101.5 reported. Students meet the animals on campus. One goat is named Vincent Van Goat.
The farm is a place for that contact, not a clinic and not a promise that every student will be assigned an animal. Vincent is one resident of a new school program.
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A public school in Absecon, New Jersey, now has a therapy farm, and the station says it is the first one in a New Jersey public school. Students can spend time with animals there. One of the goats is named Vincent Van Goat, a play on the painter Vincent van Gogh. A therapy animal is there so people can calm down and practice being gentle, not so the animal does a student's homework. The farm is at the school, which means students do not have to leave campus to meet the animals. The news is that the farm is open, with Vincent among the animals.
- What can a person practice by taking care of a goat?
- Why would a school keep animals on campus?
- How should you greet an animal that does not know you yet?
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