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Dearborn Montessori Center Students 'Slime' Physical Education Teacher
Students helped raise $4,750 for the American Heart Association through a "Jump Rope for Heart" campaign.
This article was posted by Daniel Lai. It was written and reported on by Margaret Blohm.
Students at Dearborn Heights Montessori Center delighted in “sliming” Brett Rosbury, the school’s physical education instructor at the school’s annual Field Day event on May 31.
Rosbury promised students that if they raised at least $3,000 for the American Heart Association through a “Jump Rope for Heart” campaign, they could slime him. The students exceeded the goal by raising $4,750, more than twice the amount from the previous year.
The campaign began in March, with classroom discussions and a video about heart disease, the benefits of exercise and nutrition to help prevent heart problems, and the impact on children born with heart defects.
“Our students are truly ‘big hearted,'" Rosbury said. “Along with making personal donations, they collected online donations and checks from parents and other family members, neighbors and friends.”
Fundraising efforts concluded with the “Jump Rope for Heart” event on April 18 in the school’s gymnasium. Students from first through sixth grade classes took turns at nine different stations to jump rope, hop scotch, vertical jump and participate in other jump rope activities.
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