Schools pitch in to help one another after storm
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2012, 7:27 AM
BY LESLIE BRODY”AND PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
As many North Jersey schools reopened Wednesday for the first time since superstorm Sandy, educators and parents sought to use the moment to teach students a lesson in resilience, flexibility and compassion.
A special greeting welcomed students back to Teaneck High School on Wednesday.
In the front hall of the Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School in Wood-Ridge, sprawling piles of donated textbooks, pens and glue sticks greeted 50 children who transferred in from Moonachie because their K-8 school flooded during the storm. Their teachers helped the first- and second-graders move into a library and a classroom, and expressed awe at the generosity of strangers from Ridgewood, Wyckoff and other towns who sent supplies their way.
One Wood-Ridge mother, Elizabeth Diaz, told her 7-year-old daughter, Sophia, to make the newcomers welcome during their temporary stay. “You have to make them comfortable and happy,” she said. Opening doors to them “shows we’re strong. We move on.”
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