Sons of a !@.$%^&*()_
Sons of a !@.$%^&*()_
I have a part time job as director of a latchkey program (afterschool program). The School got broken into and so much was damaged, due to the joy riders spraying fire extinguisher empty - all over everything. So school closed for a day and we had a professional company come in and scour everything, but we still had to throw away anything and everything, so now the kids have nothing to play with (this sounds like Charles Dickens). All the crayons, markers, coloring books, pencils, glue, scissors, board games, legos, lincoln logs - all had to be trashed, because we can’t have the kids breathing in the ultra fine powder residue that seems to permeate, after the cleanup was complete. Microwave - tossed, Thank God the computers somehow were ok, the cost their would have been sickening. I am soooo pissed, and disheartened. The police have a pretty good handle on it and arrests will be made, but that’s not going to help my wonderful, caring, funny kids understand, or give them things to play with during latchkey. Much of the common areas in school were affected but Latchkey got hit hard - and it is too cold to take the kids (K-7, but mostly K - 5th grade) outside. We were short supplies before, what school isn’t, but now we have nothing. Yes, we will put our creative minds together and the kids have shown great resilience, helpfulness, patience and even character since it happened Thursday nite. But I see their confusion and how their sense of safety has been blown apart, and I can only wonder why.
So today I will be going to supply companies and asking if they will donate relevant supplies to us. I have been told by a friend at one of the largest office supply companies in NE Ohio that this close to Christmas, most companies are inundated with similar type requests, so the prospects are not good.
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY