MMS 2nd Grade Class showing off what items to bring to donate to the Grind Out Hunger Food Drive
Students Unite to Collect Food
Posted to Watsonville Patch on November 2, 2011 at 5:00am
Article by: Leigh Ann Clifton
Gazing out from the stage in the school’s Assembly Room, 15 second grade students stood and collectively asked the assembled audience some objective questions: “What if you only had one meal a day, could you be happy? Could you concentrate in school? Probably not,” they answered. “Your stomach would ache, your head would hurt and your heart would be broken.”
The audience, Mount Madonna School’s (MMS) 6th through 12th graders, listened quietly. “One in four children in Santa Cruz County doesn’t have enough to eat,” the second graders continued...
