Just when you think nothing will surprise you, 400 students do...
This fall/winter I am doing my second year Social Work practicum at a local school. Now when I was growing school was much different for me. I had seven people in my grade and we had the biggest class in my school. When we graduated grade 9 there were 27 students in our school, and no-one coming in and this left 20 students for the next year. My school Bindloss school was from 1-9 and has since closed down which is saddening to me.
400 is a lot of students. There was not even that many in my high school which I had to drive an hour to.
So you may be wondering why these students have surprised me. Well one of the teachers is going to Haiti and she has proposed a fundraising event to the students to raise money and collect school supplies for the country that was hit by complete devastation.
Today one of the students came up to me and said, "Ms. Jensen, I am going to raise $500 to send to Haiti because I have a fortunate childhood and these children should too." This child is in grade one.
Now the surprising part...
People still care. People still want to help. And children have the innocence that allows them to imagine.
I love this.
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