Teachers get ‘pie’d’ for a good cause
At the monthly Round Up assembly at Cooper Elementary School last week, students celebrated a successful fundraiser by throwing a pie into the face of their favorite teacher. The teachers, many equipped with ponchos and goggles, didn’t seem to mind.
The fundraiser, Pennies for Patients, was a Student Council project and had a goal of $2017, teacher Stacie Willis said. But that goal was almost doubled with a final total of $3800.
The proceeds will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society which is funding research to cure blood cancers.
According to the flyers the students brought home about the fundraiser, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer every three minutes and someone dies every nine minutes.
Between Jan. 9 and Jan. 27, students asked family, friends and neighbors to donate. For each dollar they raised, their name was placed in a drawing to throw a pie. For every $100 raised, one pie was thrown. Students who raised $100 on their own automatically won the chance to throw a pie. One student threw three pies.
Principal Chad Mims was named by eight students and was
hit by eight pies. Stefanie Pick was hit with six.
Altogether 28 staff members were hit with 55 pies.
Before the fundraiser began, every staff member at Cooper signed on to the project.
All of them were willing to be ‘pie’d.’