We made the front page.

[MrJohn]

We got our story on the front page of the paper. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_20...www.berkshireeagle.com-www.berkshireeagle.com

 

[paassatt]

Good job educating people and correcting the misinformation they've been fed most likely their entire lives. I did notice the article said the species in the classroom were "low to no venom"...I'm not aware of any Theraphosid spider completely lacking venom. Are there such species?

 

[MrJohn]

The actual quote I gave was "the species of new world tarantulas we keep in the classroom have a low toxicity, or non-medically significant venom."

 

[grayzone]

how old did it say that rosie was Lol??? seriously though.. cool stuff... teachin em how to make proper enclosures and how to raise the food colonies... pretty awesome.

 

[Storm76]

Really happy for you about that! Congratulations! That's a good thing you do and I've seen that page before - really like educating kids to not be feared, but instead "understand" spiders better. Great thing to do...might be one day something for my GF to work with actually, who knows...although the kids she's working with are smaller...

 

[Robotponys]

how old did it say that rosie was Lol??? seriously though.. cool stuff... teachin em how to make proper enclosures and how to raise the food colonies... pretty awesome.

I'm pretty sure it was 4 1/2 yrs. Yeah this is really awesome! Perhaps T's would be legalized in NYC if kids can have them in classrooms...

 

[syndicate]

Good job!!

 

[grizzle]

That's really cool! I wonder if I had something like that growing up, if it would have helped me get over my fear sooner.

 

[newspidermom]

Great job! It's awesome to see young kids being groomed to become future arachnaholics like us...lol

 

[ZergFront]

Nice one! Spiders can use all the good rep they can get.

 

[TsmallV]

thats awesome
you show them ><

 

[THECHAD]

Great job it is sad the rep T's get my 11 year old son wanted to bring his 4.5 inch B vagans in to school to show his class room and his school made a big issue over it. Telling him that she is to deadly for him to bring her to school. And sent me home a letter saying he was Fighting with the teacher telling her That his spider was not deadly. Bunch of crap if you ask me I just told him just think of it this way your spider is to good for them any way lol.

 

[SgtSparkles]

nifty
lucky kids

 

[OphidianDelight]

Congratulations for your efforts to curb mindless fear in people.

 

[paassatt]

The actual quote I gave was "the species of new world tarantulas we keep in the classroom have a low toxicity, or non-medically significant venom."

Have you asked the newspaper to publish a correction, thereby getting your actual quote in print?