Kindness crosses county line: Plight of cash-strapped team sparks Messmer to action

Amy Hetzner:

Messmer High School is a central-city Catholic school with about 85% of its student body qualifying for federally subsidized meals. Waukesha West High School is a suburban public school where only about 6% of the students live in low-income households.

But when students in Messmer's National Honor Society heard about the nearly $10,000 fund-raising challenge facing West's Academic Decathlon team, they saw only fellow students in need.

"Ten thousand dollars to these kids - National Honor Society kids from Messmer, inner-city kids - it just blew them away," said Bob Monday, a volunteer business teacher at the Milwaukee school.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 7, 2007 3:53 AM
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