This Teacher Bought Christmas Gifts for 500 Students
December 21, 2017
By: Alix Mammina
Source: Education Week
For the second year in a row, a New Jersey elementary school teacher has raised thousands of dollars from online donations to provide Christmas gifts for every student at her school.
When a student told Jennifer Olawski that she wasn’t expecting anything for Christmas last year, the health and physical education teacher took matters into her own hands. According to the Associated Press, Olawski raised $2,500 on the fundraising site GoFundMe to buy art sets for each of the 500 students at Community Charter School in Paterson, N.J. This year, her fundraiser reached $4,500—enough to give every student coloring books, slime kits, and winter hats and gloves…