The Indiana Area Education Association, the union representing teachers in the Indiana School District, helped out students and their families by providing them with dinner on them.
Teachers in the union donated nearly $19,000 to buy pizza gift cards for every family with students enrolled in the district. The district has just under 2,000 families representing 2,900 students. Local pizza shops were contacted by the IAEA and the union purchased vouchers for 1-topping pizzas and mailed them out to families at the end of last week. Families with three students or more in the district were given a second voucher to use.
The IAEA saw this as an effort to reconnect with students outside of the virtual classrooms that have been in place since Governor Wolf’s stay-at-home order went into effect. The vouchers included a note from the union saying “Dinner’s On Us” and “Your Teachers Miss You”.
Not only was this seen as a benefit for the families, it was also seen as an infusion of money into the local economy.
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