Your kid will go through the entire 4J system without ever being taught basic civics or anything resembling a coherent, cumulative view of history. South Eugene kids going on a protest march doesn't count as history or civics: quite the opposite actually.  

They will read only a handful of books their entire 13 years (few of them challenging or of high quality). They will likely never be given vocabulary words to memorize or learn the 8 parts of speech. They will do very little writing; none of it being adequate preparation for college. The entire contemporary world: the politics, art, history, religion etc. to a 4J graduate is a total mystery.

You could teach what kids learn in school gardens over an entire year in 1 classroom day. We grow a fraction of what it takes to feed this community locally, so this is just a bunch of misleading feel-good nonsense. This is what we get when we hire a 100% far-left teaching force and give them complete autonomy on designing their own classes.