Schools Help to Dress, Feed Kids They Teach

Detroit Free Press ^ | November 11, 2003 | Chastity Pratt

[ShadowDancer]

Felicia McCray's daughter came home last year from Carstens Elementary School on Detroit's east side with a new burgundy coat.

Kayja, now 9, also showed her mother her new hat, gloves, shoes, uniform, hair accessories and a voucher to Payless ShoeSource to get another pair of shoes.

[NicknamedBob]

"...a stay-at-home mother of two, doesn't remember filling out any forms asking for help."

"I've never written so many referrals for emergency assistance. I'm really exhausted because the need is so great."

"...the girl often wakes up in the morning and says she can't go to school because she can't find her uniform."

Says it all.

[Moleman]

I golf in an anual outing each year that benifits the Gleaners Food Bank, good charity. If I wasn't taxed so greatly I would do even more for charity.

[ShadowDancer]

Most of this article is about just that, charity. That's a good thing. Help needs to be coming more from the private sector than from our pockets when it's done so unwillingly (in other words, the government.)