Seventh Grade Students Earn $5,000 for Animal Protection

Two seventh graders earned 5,000 for the Animal Protective Association of Missouri (APA) with letter-writing skills they learned at Washington Middle School.

Ray Cordes and Sarah Schryver were learning business letter-writing in Katie McMullen’s Communication Arts class and asked for a donation to the APA from Carol House Furniture.

“All of their commercials promote animals at the end, so I thought they would donate. I was surprised at the amount, though,” Sarah said in a district release, and Ray agreed. “I was shocked,” he said about the size of the donation. “I couldn’t believe it.”

The furniture store is a sponsor of the annual APA Canine Carnival in the fall and asked that the money be used to support the event this year. Washington Middle will also be included as a sponsor through the donation.

Other seventh-graders gathered $800 for the APA from family members and other local businesses with their letters.

“All of the seventh-grade students across the district participate in a business letter-writing unit, but each school does it a little differently,” McMullen said.