A blogger friend is
excited about school starting. Teaching
is a difficult yet rewarding career if you love kids. She teaches in a high poverty school. She’s been doing it for 20 years.
She recently headed
over to her classroom to get it ready for the new school year checking to make
sure the computers and audio-visual equipment were functioning properly. She cares enough about “her kids” that she
strives to make the classroom a “comfortable, welcoming place” where they can
feel “something good could happen at any moment.”
Pat knows a lot of
her kids’ parents just don’t have the money to buy school supplies and she
has a post up at her place asking for help.
She’s already opened her wallet to buy hand sanitizer, notebook paper,
pencils, colored pencils, rubber bands, paper clips and other basic items.
She’s got links to
Amazon for the things her students need, but if you’d rather send cash you can
click on the PayPal button located on her sidebar. I did that this morning and Pat emailed me
right away to say she was going to buy a class set of The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan as a companion book to read
with The Grapes of Wrath for her
English classes. She has wonderful
things planned for her students. Won’t
you please help Pat’s dream of “wonderful things” come true?
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