Turning treats into tuition
 Charlotte Cunningham is bringing Rice Krispies treats. Emma Parker is bringing brownies. Their fellow third-graders are bringing cookies, popcorn and untold other goodies from home ovens citywide.
They’re hoping you’re bringing quarters.
Class 3 will hold a bake sale in the Gordon Room tomorrow — Thursday, November 30 — to raise money to sponsor a Kenyan girl to attend her school for a year. They hope as many people as possible will help them toward their goal by trading pocket change for a treat.
The $360 needed for Lucy, the Kenyan student whom Class 3 hopes to sponsor, to attend school seems tiny compared with what many New York City students pay for a year of education. But the Class 3 girls have learned, through their intensive social-studies unit on Kenya, that this amount represents a vast sum for many Kenyan families. They have also discovered that Kenyan students cannot attend school past the seventh grade without sponsorship. Without outside help, Lucy might not be able to continue her classes when this school year ends.
Lucy is currently attending her school, called Entonet, with support from Chapin, enabled by an energetic fund-raising effort by last year’s students, now in Class 4. The girls who are currently in Mrs. Shure’s and Ms. Crandall’s third-grade classes hope that their bake sale will be just as successful, if not better.
“We’re happy to sponsor the same girl,” Hannah Russell said. “You don’t want to go to school one year and not the next.”
Class 3 students and their families plan to bake today and bring the goods on their way to school tomorrow for the sale, which will run from 11:24 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. They have wallpapered the school with posters to remind students to bring in money to buy a snack for a good cause. And they believe that they’ve found the perfect vehicle to turn their charitable goal into reality.
After all, Hannah pointed out, “a lot of kids like treats.”
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