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What Could Malden Public Schools Buy For $100,000?
Patch's "Deck The House" contest is giving away serious dough to the winner's public school district, and Malden teachers already have ways they could spend the money.
It may be the holiday season currently, but Malden Public School teachers have been making their list and checking it twice for quite some time. Since Patch is giving away $100,000 through its , we wanted to see what teachers in Malden could do with the money if a Maldonian won.
Some of the requests are smaller than others. At iLoveSchools.com, Mrs. Patrie's English Language Learning classroom at the Beebe School needs $578.32 for textbooks, organizational supplies, and an activity table. And, according to her list on Classwish.org, Mrs. Lievense, a kindergarten teacher at the Forestdale School, needs $1,292.09 for crayons, construction paper, picture dictionaries, maps, and a host of other supplies.
Others are more significant. On Malden's page on the Adopt-A-Classroom website, there are 91 public school classrooms listed as available for adoption.
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Each classroom listed includes a report from the teacher on the needs and current state of the classroom and the school, like Ferryway School 2nd grade teacher Susan Ellis's statement, "We are always running low on supplies for the classroom like pencils, erasers, crayons, highlighters, red pens, and glue sticks. These are materials that are used on a daily basis. Some children do purchase their own materials, but many families are not able to, due to financial difficulties."
Another website, Donorschoose.org, has requests from 4 different Malden Schools, coming in at $468 needed for instruments for a music classroom, $110 for novels for an English class, $508 for e-readers for Malden High, and $529 for books for another English class, or $1615 all together.
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Adding the $1615 to the needs from iLoveSchools.com ($578.32) and Classwish.org ($1,292.09) brings the total of cost of listed items to $3485.41.
Subtracting that from the $100,000 that Patch is giving away to the Deck The House winner's public school distract leaves $96,514.59 to be divided among the 91 classrooms up for adoption. That's $1,060.60 per classroom.
And if you're not going to decorate and enter the contest, but would still like to help Malden Public Schools, each of those sites has ways that you can donate easily. As Sarah Augustyniak, a first grade teacher at the Salemwood School, says on her Adopt-A-Classroom listing, "I spend a great deal of personal money on my classroom, but it still never seems to be enough."
