Just Wait!

Friday, December 17, 2004

Students who began attending Bennett Elementary School this school year, can’t wait until it gets warm again.

Because the school staff, volunteers and students just recently helped finish off the final touches to the landscaping for their new playground. It’ll be a beautiful place for the 690 students to play especially during recess. With the help of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids through Children’s Hospital of Michigan and a $70,000 donation from Allstate Insurance Co., volunteers changed a dirt lot into a playground wonderland. The school’s student population is 78% Hispanic with 93% of the families below the poverty level. But in the past 4 years the school has been the recipient of the 2003 Wayne RESA Outstanding Elementary Teacher of the Year Award, the 2002 MSTA Michigan Elementary Science Teacher of the Year Award and the 2000 Golden Apple Award. Inside the school they have added a computer lab, reopened the school library along with increasing the book volume, purchased new desks for all students, installed a new gym floor, and renovated the main office. The new playground is just one more feather in a very big cap.