They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

In Big Yellow Taxi, a Joni Mitchell song, we are faced with the nightmare of
an environmental future of deficits.  Many things have changed since that song from
1970, but is it enough?   This site is the result of a study completed by my
AGM students.  AGM is a gifted and talented program at Pine Tree Independent  School
District in Longview, Texas.  This acronym stands for Academically Gifted Minors.