DC students get hands-on experience as junior arborists during spring break

The students plan to draft and propose legislation to ban English Ivy in the District later this year.

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WASHINGTON — Some D.C. high school students are out of the classroom this week for spring break, but haven’t stopped working or learning.

A group of junior arborists found work treating sick and hazardous trees through paid high school internship programs through DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

“It’s definitely something I want to get across to them about the importance of being connected to the landscape and your environment,” said Charles Boston, a certified

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