Dear Friends:
I am reaching out to you to help me inspire my students to reach their highest potential. Adopt-A-Classroom (www.adoptaclassroom.org) is a non-profit organization that offers an easy and accountable way for you to donate funds to my classroom and make a real difference for me and my students.
All donations are tax-deductible. 100% of the donation goes to my classroom. Adopt-A-Classroom takes $0 out for administration.
Here`s a description of my classroom and our specific needs:
School: North Education Center
Grade: All high
Subject: English literature
Number of students your donation will impact: 128
East High School is currently being remodeled and so we are temporarily being housed at the North Education Center, currently called “East on Arcadia”. The school population has a 54% attendance rate, is 96% African American and 86% of the students are economically disadvantaged. This is my 13th year teaching high school English but my first year working for Columbus City Schools. My main goal is to get the students to attend class and so I want to do all I can to engage them when they are present. I have spent my own money on classroom journals, pencils, markers, paper and new books and I am running out of funds. The latest item on my wish list is a class set(26 copies) of Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. I would also like to be able to pay the $150 fee to have my students participate in the Books of Hope project, where students write and illustrate books for other children in India or Uganda. Thank you!
To learn how you can support my efforts in the classroom click on the link below.
Kathy McQuate Adopt-A-Classroom Homepage
I greatly appreciate your consideration in adopting my classroom. Please pass this email on to your employers and friends.
Thank you for your time.
Kathy McQuate
North Education Center
Classroom: 311
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2:11 pm on March 2nd, 2008
Heeeey, Mrs. Mcquate how been? I dont know if you remember me but this is Derrick Neff your best student EVER! Anyways me and a buddy was talking about coming back down to whitehall to visit some old teachers. I was looking on the whitehall website to see who all of my old teachers was still there and considering you was always my favorite i had to search for you but, i couldnt find you soo i googled your name. It says your at North Education Center what happened at whitehall? I dont blame you without me there i would have left also haha. But i was bored found this not sure if you will even get but figured i would see how you was doing. Email me back sometime if you get this dneff11h4l@yahoo.com — Hope all is well . Derrick Neff