Walter the Tortoise will soon depart McLaughlin Academy of Excellence, along with a cow and several donkeys.
But the Lake Wales school for grades sixth through 10 in Lake Wales is not eliminating its agriculture programs, as some students and parents might have feared.
In a letter to McLaughlin families dated Sept. 9, Principal Diameshia H. Williams wrote that the school has “restructured” its Exceptional Student Education Farm, which allowed students with disabilities to help care for a campus-based menagerie…