Many of the children at Floradale Public School, where I attended a recent Focus on Nature workshop, are Mennonite.
Children who grow up in the David Martin Mennonite sect wear traditional clothes - bonnets and long skirts for girls, straw hats and suspenders for boys - and come to school by horse and buggy.
Some children in the class were not permitted to take a nature photography course and were sent to another class for the day.
Those that did stay had a great time. They were enthusiastic to be out exploring nature and curious to learn more.
When I asked one student about high school and university, she said matter-of-factly "Oh no, we stop going to school when we turn fourteen."
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