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GJHS 8th graders help
kids at Dayton Children’s Hospital
GREENVILLE – “The class did everything. I was just there to hold their
hand,” said GJHS teacher Jamie Boomershine. “This is the first class to
do this…” 40 Greenville City Schools 8th graders just finished a
“service-learning” project they have “worked very hard to complete,”
according to Boomershine. They developed and implemented a project to
benefit patients at Dayton Children’s Hospital.
They sent about 120 Care Packages for children, plus 20 board games,
did room decorations and small gifts, like friendship bracelets,
coloring books, slinkies and silly putty. They also donated $370 to the
hospital for kids who couldn’t afford treatment. “They raised $670
dollars over a four-day period,” Boomershine said.
Boomershine added she basically just tossed out a thought… the kids ran
with it. They researched different types of projects. Some of the
options were the children’s hospital, Kids for Foster Care, the Burn
Unit, ALS, Wounded Warriors… they had to submit a formal proposal for
each idea. They discussed all of them before voting on the project they
wanted...
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