In his recent commentary article ("Kids need environmental literacy," July 28) our governor praised the students at Kennard Elementary School in Queen Anne's County for building "a marsh in their own schoolyard."

Did the EPA's required environmental impact study actually approve this project? It is my understanding that marshlands or wetlands or whatever he wants to call them are breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes. Right next to the children's school!

And what in the world does he mean by "environmental literacy"? Apparently, whatever it is, neither he nor the kids at Kennard have it.

Richard T. Seymour, Baltimore