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Ms. Minor from Compton, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Minor's classroom raised $231

Scratchy, Squeaky, Dirty Floors!

My students need 50 sets of Chair Sox, tennis balls for the chair and desk feet.

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Ms. Minor McKinley Elementary School
Compton, CA Grades 3-5

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Remember the way the classroom looked on your first day back to school each year? Clean, shiny floors, clean desks and chairs, new posters on the walls, bright and exciting? Nice, right? Then try to remember the floor after winter break, or spring break, or right before summer. And the noise?

My students are 5th graders, very low income, ethnically diverse minority kids.

Our school is in the inner city in an urban area. The entire school qualifies for free meals. They are an excited group of kids, looking forward to 5th grade. I have worked with many of them already and they are just thrilled to be coming to my class in the fall.

My Project

Think back to the screeching, squeaking, scraping noise of sliding chairs in and out of the seat, and stacking them on the desk at the end of the day, you'll remember the annoying, ear-splitting, and skin-crawling feeling that we experience daily. But beyond the noise is the state of the floor. The custodial staff works very hard over summer to buff and wax the classroom floors, but since the chairs have metal feet, the floors get torn up within a couple weeks. By winter break, it's streaked with grime. By the end of the year, you can hardly tell what color it was. Then the custodians are hard back at it, trying to undo the damage. I am requesting Chair Sox for all the chairs and tables in my classroom. Chair Sox are like tennis balls, but thicker and designed specifically for classrooms. They have a slot cut into them so the chair or table leg fits in, then the rubberized felt material is what comes in contact with the floor, not the metal feet. They can be re-used, too.

I'd like to make the classroom a nice, clean, comfortable environment for everyone who is in it.

The kids like and deserve a clean, quiet floor. The custodians have enough to do without needless wear on the floors to contend with. Even the regular mopping isn't enough to deal with the scrapes from the chairs. The school can't afford the replace the floors or the chairs right now. This is the most cost-effective solution to this problem that I could find.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

30 students impacted 1 donor
Ms. Minor McKinley Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Compton, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

30 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
CS627 - Chair Sox - Single Set • Lakeshore Learning $2.99 50 $149.50

Materials cost

$149.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.68

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$200.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.95

Total project goal

$230.37

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $230.37

1 Donor

-$230.37

Donations toward project cost

-$200.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.95

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