Rundown S.C. school gets makeover
Students who had grown resigned to old, "nasty" furnishings at their dilapidated middle school in rural South Carolina were elated Monday to find new furniture and a freshly painted cafeteria, thanks to a student's plea, a president's speech and a businessman's response.
"I was amazed. They changed the whole thing," said J.V. Martin Junior High eighth-grader Jessica Manning, 13. "It let me know somebody cares about us." Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
If we can again treat schools as temples of knowledge and learning instead of dumps for the dirty, the obvious respect may be reflected in the students. I have taught in bamboo buildings with dirt floors, but in that case they reflected community pride and value for education.