With the seemingly never ending parade of bad news stories about how Corona virus is hurting young people’s education and impacting on schools globally, it is great to still see those teachers who will go the extra mile to help their students.
Two Alabama elementary-school teachers have gone the extra mile – about 50 miles, in fact – to help their homebound students keep up with their reading and writing and arithmetic during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Merideth Lett and Hollie Nelson, who teach at Huntington Place Elementary School in Northport, drove around Tuscaloosa County this past Thursday delivering “care bags” to all 25 of their fourth-grade students. The teachers gave each student a recyclable grocery bag filled with math and reading workbooks, writing notebooks and mindfulness lessons, as well as Post-it Notes, highlighters, pencils, crayons, snacks, photos of their fellow students and personal notes from the teachers.
Huntington Place Elementary School was closed for spring break last week, and like other schools around the state, it will be closed at least through April 3 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have just bonded with these students and their parents like never before,” Lett said in an interview with AL.com today. “There was just a lot of uncertainty about what to do and how to maintain instruction, so Hollie and I decided that we would do these bags together.”
The teachers provided the school supplies and snacks, and the grocery bags were donated by Publix. Five Points Baptist Church in Northport also contributed a $200 Walmart gift card, which the teachers used to buy groceries for four of the students whose families are food insecure.
Since delivering the care bags, Lett said she and Nelson have received text messages and photos from many of their students’ parents thanking them for their efforts.
“It meant the world to them,” she said. “Our county is quite large, so some of our students live far out. . . .
“One of the things we kept hearing from the students that we got to see was, ‘I cannot believe my teacher is at my house. I didn’t know teachers ever came to your house.’”
This particular class, which also includes some special-needs students, means the world to their teachers, too.
Well done ladies! All of us at ChalkFace applaud you.
With the seemingly never ending parade of bad news stories about how Corona virus is hurting young people’s education and impacting on schools globally, it is great to still see those teachers who will go the extra mile to help their students. Two Alabama elementary-school teachers have gone the extra mile – about 50 miles, in fact – to help their homebound students keep up with their reading and writing and arithmetic during the COVID-19 outbreak. Merideth Lett and Hollie Nelson, who teach at Huntington Place Elementary School in Northport, drove around Tuscaloosa County this past Thursday delivering “care bags” to all 25 of their fourth-grade students. The teachers gave each student a recyclable grocery bag filled with math and reading workbooks, writing notebooks and mindfulness lessons, as well as Post-it Notes, highlighters, pencils, crayons, snacks, photos of their fellow students and personal notes from the teachers. Huntington Place Elementary School was closed for spring break last week, and like other schools around the state, it will be closed at least through April 3 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We have just bonded with these students and their parents like never before,” Lett said in an interview with AL.com today. “There was just a lot of uncertainty about what to do and how to maintain instruction, so Hollie and I decided that we would do these bags together.” The teachers provided the school supplies and snacks, and the grocery bags were donated by Publix. Five Points Baptist Church in Northport also contributed a $200 Walmart gift card, which the teachers used to buy groceries for four of the students whose families are food insecure. Since delivering the care bags, Lett said she and Nelson have received text messages and photos from many of their students’ parents thanking them for their efforts. “It meant the world to them,” she said. “Our county is quite large, so some of our students live far out. . . . “One of the things we kept hearing from the students that we got to see was, ‘I cannot believe my teacher is at my house. I didn’t know teachers ever came to your house.’” This particular class, which also includes some special-needs students, means the world to their teachers, too. Well done ladies! All of us at ChalkFace applaud you.
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