Hatikvah Helps Those in Need in honor of MLK Day
Students at the Hatikvah International Academy Charter School packed breakfasts for Middlesex County crisis centers, including Elijah's Promise and Women Aware.
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Hatikvah International Academy Charter School Celebrated Martin Luther King Day by reaching out to those in need.
For students at the school, Martin Luther King Day is usually a “day on, not of,” which means many of them come in on the vacation day and take advantage of a great opportunity to help others.
This year, the school’s Parent-Teacher Organization, the Outreach Committee, planned the second annual MLK Day of Service, where over 50 students used their vacation day on Monday, Jan. 16, to pack breakfast bags for Middlesex County crisis centers. Shop-Rite of East Brunswick joined in the effort by contributing its community space for bag-packing activities.
Special guest Mayor David Stahl stopped by to share a message of encouragement and his thoughts on the significance of the day. At the culmination of the event, parents and friends applauded the efforts of all the students/parents who volunteered their time and donated goods in support of the day, but most importantly, they applauded the 416 bags that were prepared for the less fortunate.
After cleaning up and boxing all of the bags, a few students were given the opportunity to deliver 308 of the prepared bags to Elijah’s Promise in New Brunswick. The remaining 108 were donated to Women Aware.
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Kelly
10:12 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I commend the students for participating in this service project.
Still, no amount of a PR campaign by Hatikvah is going to make the tax payers in this town okay with paying for an entirely separate school system for a special intrest group. If we, as a town wanted to open another traditional public school with our hard earned property taxdollars, we would have had a say in it. The political maneuvering that allows this school to siphon money out of our public school budget with no input from local tax payers is appauling.
Chester Copperpot
10:13 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I commend the students and staff for the good work their doing. It's great that this happens. However, I agree with Kelly. Hopefully with a bill being introduced to the legislature to have school districts vote to decide if they want a charter in their town coming up, we won't have to deal with self(ish) interest groups creating their own schools so they don't have to pay for private language lessons. That, and the new full day kindergarten should siphon off some students who use the Hebrew school as a way to avoid paying for care service for public school kindergarten instead. In a way I should thank the Hebrew school. I have a kid going into kindergarten in a year and a half and now I don't have to worry about paying for private kindergarten since their Hebrew school pretty much pushed the town into going full-time for kindergarten.
Chester Copperpot
10:14 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
"they're", not "their", before the grammar police come and arrest me
MJTechnologies LLC
9:24 am on Friday, February 3, 2012
Here is some interesting reading...
http://eb.gmnews.com/news/2012-02-02/Front_Page/EB_board_argues_state_erred_in_granting_charter.html