NOVEMBER 9, 2015 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015, 11:27 AM
BY MATTHEW SCHNEIDER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
A breast cancer awareness fundraiser that took place at Benjamin Franklin Middle School (BF) on Oct. 30 showed that, should enough duct tape be applied, a person can indeed be held by tape in midair for a good cause.
The scene was a strange one, with permanent substitute Daniel Cermack, a staff member with whom many of the students are close, hanging suspended from a pillar in the BF cafeteria for 90 minutes by pieces of pink duct tape. The strands, which were purchased by the students, were the school’s means of raising money for breast cancer research, which it has done for many years. All of the money raised was donated to the Avon Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.
“For the past 10 years, we have sold pink ribbons, pink Livestrong bracelets, etc., to raise money for breast cancer awareness,” said Dave Tashian, a guidance counselor and student council advisor at BF. “The kids were looking for something new. A student saw this idea of duct taping people to the wall, and we came up with an idea of how to make money off of it.”
Each length of tape cost $1, though for $2, the middle-schoolers were given the opportunity to snap a selfie with Cermack as he hung from the pillar like an insect in a cocoon.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/education/school-fundraiser-a-sticky-situation-1.1451780
Wouldn’t this be “stupidity awareness” and “wasted office supplies awareness”?
This story is bizarre and really kind of disturbing on many levels.
Paid a permanent sub for this? Was his mother busy?
When I heard about this, my first thought was that I didn’t want my 12-year-old daughter taping a man to a wall. Kind of weird.
When I heard about this I thought I would not want my son or my daughter applying tape onto the (clothed) body of a young man. Just weird, I’m sorry.
The Village Council should hold a fundraiser like this. Taping some of them to a wall would be more fun.