School Desks

Portsmouth-Thanks to the fundraising activity of the Portsmouth Barbershop, 15 residents of Chase Children's Home have new desks.

Reed Maerder, the founder and owner of The Groomsmith, created and promoted the GoFundMe page for his customers and the community to help purchase these tables for a total price of approximately $1,200. The goal was reached within 12 hours after the fundraising campaign started.

"We just put the boat there, everyone jumped on the boat and got where they needed to go," Mulder said.

Chase Children’s Home Executive Director Mem Wheeler said that the desks were put down on Monday, December 14, which made the students and staff very happy.

She said: "The children are really excited, and the staff are really excited, because another feature of it is that children can have a table, which really adds to the structure of the day," "Psychologically speaking, This is very helpful."

The average age of young residents of Chase Children's Home is 15 years old, and the age range of school students is from junior high to 18 years old.

Wheeler said that desks can help employees ensure social evacuations during distance learning, and follow the generous gift of donors at the end of last year to expand WiFi connections throughout the building.

She added: “It’s more of a formal process for them than carrying a laptop with them.”

Since opening on Deer Street in 2018, Groomsmith has partnered with Chase Home for Children every year during the holidays to support its residents. Wheeler said that once, Maerder and his team invited some boys who were living in the non-profit resident program to get haircuts. They "absolutely liked" haircuts.

The gifts Maerder and his team received from the community are not limited to this. Due to increased funding from customers and other locals, another $1,400 was raised. Wheeler said she will use it to buy laptops, so every resident will have his own equipment.

"It was quite successful," Meld said. "For us, raising funds is an interesting thing." 

This generous act is of great significance to Wheeler and his team, and ensures that the young people at Chase Children's Home are “safe and stable” and have the tools they need during distance learning.

"This is incredibly inspiring. We are forever grateful to our community and The Groomsmith," she said. "If we didn't have people like them, we wouldn't exist."

The donation by Maerder and his team coincides with the donation home of Chase Children's Season, which is usually funded through the annual wine and chocolate tasting event of a non-profit organization. Due to COVID-19, an online fundraiser was held to raise $19,000.

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They are doing distance learning and donating it to various organizations in the four city areas. TV6 reporter Talya Faggart tells a story about Hugh Stafford and his friend John Kessler who saw a man in Stafford After doing similar stories, I started making desks in November.

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The duo can now set up 25 to 30 desks a week, and so far, they have given away more than 80 desks. If you are interested in helping with the cost ($25 per table), you can make a donation in the following ways:

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Zach Kinder, UNK’s facility management and planning staff, recently helped move the auxiliary tables and chairs from the Otto Olsen building to the Orphan Grain Train semi-trailer.

KEARNEY-Surplus furniture from the University of Nebraska (Kearney) is being reborn in a school in India.

UNK recently donated 230 desks and about 40 chairs to Norfolk-based non-profit organization Orphan Grain Train. The company provides clothing, food, medical supplies and other assistance to people in need around the world.

These items will eventually be shipped to United International School in Bangalore, India, which provides services to families living in poverty. Although classes are taught remotely due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the school plans to reopen in May and add a new one to accommodate students in grades 11 and 12 so that students can go from pre-kindergarten to high school.

"This school is only possible by donating these tables," said Suzie Leffers, director of public relations for Orphan Train.

Levers said that in addition to helping them receive high school education, the "new" furniture also injects pride into the students.

She said: "It was amazing when these children received the desk."

Orphan Grain Train cooperates with the United Evangelical Mission of India and the "India Transformation" organization to support United International School. Last fiscal year, the "Orphan Train" provided more than US$47 million in humanitarian aid and food to those in need. This non-profit organization serves nearly 70 countries/regions including the United States

The desks and chairs for the trip to India came from two buildings on the UNK campus-the previously renovated Copeland Hall and Otto Olsen, which was scheduled to be demolished this spring.

Megan Telecky, UNICEF’s facility management and planning operations manager, said: “It’s better to bring these items back to life than to see them thrown into a landfill.”

Facility management included furniture in the online surplus auction, but buyers were not interested in it, so Telecky also contacted the Kearney school to find out if there is a local demand.

In order to avoid landfills, which would have an adverse impact on the environment and waste the disposal fees of the United Nations Academy of Sciences, the facility management department contacted the Orphan Grain Train, and a semi-trailer arrived on campus last week to receive donations.

Telecky said: "We are very happy to see these items find a new home that can have a positive impact on students."

In the past, UNK has donated remaining items to Orphan Grain Train, including when the non-profit organization received chairs, desks and 225 dormitory mattresses in 2018.

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Harford County schools will purchase nearly 34,000 plastic protective covers for the desks of students and teachers to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Officials say this may allow them to bring back students two days later in the second half of this year.

The purchase of approximately $880,000 was approved at a special education committee meeting on Wednesday morning.

Starting on March 1, elementary students in Harford County Public Schools will return to school once a week, while junior and high school students are scheduled to start on March 15.

It is not clear how fast the school system can move twice a week once the plastic shield arrives, but Burson said that Wednesday the school will not open two days a week starting on March 1, even if the plastic shield Arrived before then. These shields are expected to be shipped in mid-February.

Burson said: "We will not work two days a week on March 1. There is still a lot of evaluation work to be done." "We are trying to create all possible conditions to quickly migrate to two days a week. It started... but we saw that the possibility of migrating two days a week was much faster than we even thought, and much earlier. About a few weeks ago."

Since November 13, HCPS has started virtual learning, when the COVID-19 indicators in states and counties began to soar. On Monday, State School Superintendent Karen Salmon Governor Larry Hogan and State Deputy Secretary of Public Health Dr. Jinlene Chan announced plans to return to the local area and urged all Maryland school systems to return students to campus. Early March.

The board purchased 31,471 associate student desks and 2,298 associate teacher desks with 6 votes to 0 (board members David Bauer, Joyce Herold, and Tamera Rush missed the special meeting). The student guardrail is tri-folded, covering the front and side of each table. Eric Davis, the administrative director of the school system, said the teacher's desk guard is a whole.

According to Deborah Judd, Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Commerce Service, the plastic shield is funded by the Second and Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, which is the US$900 billion Federal Coronavirus Relief Act signed into law at the end of December. a part of.

Last spring, the school system did not use the funds from the first round of the CARES Act to purchase plastic protective covers, because most of the money was used to purchase student equipment and other personal protective equipment, such as masks.

Judd wrote in an email: "With the additional funds we have now, we can explore what other items are needed to continue to safely send teachers and students back to the classroom."

Although the shield is portable, the number of shields purchased is not enough to be allocated to each student in the school system. Instead, 15 student shields were purchased for each classroom, which allowed about half of the typical class size in a room.

Burson said: "Fifteen people have made us reach the level of having students two days a week. In this case, every student has a choice."

Cornell Brown, assistant director of operations, explained that some protective covers may be allocated to rooms that have not been used all day, especially in middle schools.

He said: "In the high school stage, the students moved and every classroom was not used, so even if they are not occupied, we will install protective shields in the classroom." "In the resource areas such as music and art, these rooms are not used. Not always in use, and science laboratories are not always in use, but they will be equipped with desktop protective panels so that students can use the equipment when entering these classrooms."

School officials pointed out that the state’s guidelines for reopening schools require safety protocols, such as masking, social distancing and frequent cleaning, which are barriers to bringing more students back to safe face-to-face learning. In particular, maintaining a physical distance of 6 feet between unrelated students is an obstacle to not allowing more than a quarter of the children to attend the classroom at a time, so the plan is to teach only one day a week.

Even with desk covers, students must wear masks in the classroom. Board member Dr. Roy Phillips (Roy Phillips) pointed out that the shield does not provide much protection on either side. Phillips said that young people must maintain a distance of 6 feet from side to side, but schools can reduce the distance between front and back to attract more students into the classroom.

Because they are portable, they can also be taken to the cafeteria during lunch.

“Lunch is a place where children don’t wear masks, so they can take them with them. Some schools can put them in the lunch room and stay there. Other schools can let children put them down, but it does provide more protection. In the dining room where no children wear masks," Burson said.

The principal reiterated that plastic shields alone are not enough to bring students back twice a week, but this is a step in the right direction.

Bulsen said: "Buying plexiglass will help...it only provides a higher level of support, but nothing we do will change the process." "I think this is a good addition. , What I can promise is that we will work hard to reach two days as soon as possible."

How important is the desk in today's distance learning? Ask Woburn's mother, Laura Marston, who picked up the table and went home on Wednesday. She has a freshman in high school, an eighth grader, a fifth grader, a third grader and a first grader, all studying at home.

She said: "People are everywhere, and my youngest child is on the sofa, so I hope this will bring more motivation." "He is happy to put all of his things in one place instead of the whole place."

So far, Woburn has given out 140 desks, and Gloucester is doing the same.

Pat Hand, a teacher at O'Maley Innovation Middle School, teaches at home. She has seen Marston in many Zoom courses.

She said: "Many of them are lying on the bed. Some of them are lying in the kitchen with food on the table and animals around."

Not the classroom environment you mentioned. Therefore, Hande suggested that they give the family desk. The principal of the school, Lynne Beattie, attended the meeting.

Beatty said: "We have the Gloucester Education Foundation, and in every request we make, we will give strong support, so they can provide funds for the materials we need."

Engineering expert Dave Brown designed the desk and taught teachers and volunteers how to make the desk.

Dan Graham, a social worker at the school, said that desks are more than just furniture for children living in the coronavirus pandemic.

Graham said: "I wake up at any time, I have breakfast at the table, and suddenly I have to go to class, there is no room to specifically say'this is my study space'."

So far, Gloucester has sent 30 desks to the home, but they hope this number will increase as the news spreads.