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From Graham Park Middle School teacher Jennifer Brown:
It was an event run by the club I co-sponsor with Mary Garecht, one of our counselors. Our club is called the FOR club, which stands for Friends of Rachel. This stems from the Rachel Challenge assemblies which were ideas and writings from Rachel Scott, the first victim of the Columbine school shooting. Her ideas and writing were about spreading kindness and compassion, acts of kindness, etc. starting a chain reaction of kindness.
So, we did this event two years ago to raise money for breast cancer research. We raised over $600 that year. This year with the death of my husband’s cousin, Michael Graff, and one of our very best friends, Bruce Diggs, both due to complications of diabetes, I felt strongly about bringing this event back to our school to raise awareness of this disease.
The event happens during each lunch shift (and we have six shifts). We asked for teacher volunteers, and in some lunch shifts, we had two volunteers!
One of our social studies teachers, Matt Powe, said if we raised over $500 he would shave his beard. In the end, we raised over $700.
Students buy one yard of tape for one dollar. They can buy as much as they want.
It ranged from one piece to $20, $25, and one $30 donation to this cause. It was amazing.
The day of the event the students are called up and can administer the tape where they see fit. As you can then see by the pictures how much tape each teacher had.
Our most popular were our last lunch shift with Mr. Powers and Ms. Kerr, but our 6th-grade lunch with Mr. John Tychan and Mr. Cole Mitchell was a great one as well!
The teachers have 30 seconds to get out of the duct tape and ring a bell. If they don’t get out, they get a whipped cream pie to the face from the student who donated the most money in that lunch shift.
