They are going to suffer, these children.
They are going to be hungry. They are going to be in danger. They are going to fall behind in school.
Like it or not, these students and their parents greatly depend on the free meals served in our schools and the items sent home for weekends … and who is going to watch them during these days when the single-parents or both have to work to live paycheck-to-paycheck?
It’s terrific that folks with local school systems are working on supplying more online materials, but what if a child lives in a home that doesn’t purchase access to broadband?
And by the way … what about that 180 days mandate for Mountain State schools? Well, that’s an issue that remains unresolved, according to Ohio County Superintendent Dr. Kim Miller.
“The Governor has instructed us to work in the food aspect, and to the mental health issues some of our students experience,” she said. “As far academics, we’ve been told that will not be addressed until a re-opening date is established.”
So, what can we do to help the efforts?
Donate food to a local collection?
Be neighbors to those in the child-at-home situation?
Offer up your Wi-Fi password to in-need students who live in your neighborhood?
Just spit balling really, but such an exercise helps to recognize what someone can do for the good of these kids. It’s not a liberal or conservative thing, either, but instead the reality of survival.
Call it a community thing.
