You just know that this is going to make some people — younger people and older people — unhappy.
We really can’t have people just working without being paid!
The thought of her students taking to the road to get to school prompted Karen Kenna, principal of Cardinal Forest Elementary in Springfield, to issue a call for volunteers to clear more sidewalks at the sprawling campus. More than 50 parents and children turned out Monday, cheered on by Kenna, PTA President Jill Chastain and Supervisor John C. Cook (R-Braddock), who came bearing doughnuts for volunteers.
A cluster of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade boys dutifully scooped snow from the school’s playground and piled it high, stopping only occasionally to throw snowballs.
The District asked neighbors to create “shoveling teams,” while volunteers in Alexandria worked alongside school staff to remove patches of ice and snow at neighborhood schools. A dusting of snow Monday did not complicate their efforts, as some had feared.
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty called on able-bodied residents to do their part and help clean the city’s sidewalks. “It is a public-safety issue. When we open schools this week, it is going to be tough for the kids to walk if the sidewalks are not shoveled,” Fenty (D) said during a Monday news conference. (Snow volunteers pitch in to shovel as schools try to open, Washington Post, 2/16/2010)
Wild!