I went to this elementary school . . . 50 years ago

[ashling]

School Volunteer Pays Delinquent Lunch Accounts For Over 60 Kids

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/06/volunteer-pays-for-full-l_0_n_4740696.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009




Kenny Thompson is a volunteer tutor and mentor at Valley Oaks Elementary in Houston. He says he asked about the lunch differences after hearing about some Utah students who lost meals because of non-payment.

Thompson told Houston television station KPRC (http://bit.ly/1fXbkVi) that likely was the reason for smaller meals at his school. He learned more than 60 children were on reduced lunches because parents couldn't afford the 40-cent daily fee.

He provided $465 to eliminate the deficits.

Thompson says children shouldn't have to worry about finances.

[pscot]

1. How come this isn't getting more love?

Kenny Thompson deserves at least a trip to the greatest page.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. other threads about this reached greatest page yesterday

[pscot]

3. A day late and a dollar short

It's the story of my life.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Greatest Page for your wonderful post, my dear ashling!

[ashling]

5. And my wonderful elementary school

Those were good years, They knocked the school down last fall . . . it was pretty sad. But they rebuilt it! I remember the row of classrooms with the colored panels and windows that opened outward (no air conditioning back then).

Only two bad memories off hand:

I remember in third grade when the teacher aske what were some foods you have for breakfast. Of course she was thinking bacon and eggs, etc. But just that morning I had had a big breakfast (family in town - 2 aunts and uncles, 6 cousins) of fried chicken and pork chops and gravy an biscuits, so that's what I said. The teacher slapped my hand with a ruler. I was so embarrasses that I didn't even mention that to my mom until a few years later when I was in high school. She got so mad at the teacher. "If I had known I would have given her a piece of my mind!"

Then there was the time in fourth grade when I took the brontosaurus model I had made with my dad in for show and tell. I was on the bus and on of the "big kids" a girl in 5th grade ran off of the bus and caught it with he poofy skirt and broke it all to bits.

Other than that, they were mostly good times.