by Eugene Scott – May. 11, 2010 12:00 AM, The Arizona Republic
Randy Plummer had been teaching woodworking at Paradise Valley High School for years, so he’d run into his share of students falling asleep in class. But students fainting from hunger was something that never had happened, until this school year.
“They were almost hurting themselves in shop because they did not have enough energy to do the work,” said David Moss, one of Plummer’s students.
Moss is a senior enrolled at Pinnacle High School who comes to Paradise Valley High for shop class.
“I was kind of shocked. I go to Pinnacle
High. Over there, you don’t see these kind of cases of hunger,” he said.
Students in Plummer’s class knew what was happening.
As the economy has worsened, parents have been laid off and many families have found it difficult to make ends meet. Students were coming to class hungry, but they wouldn’t admit it. “You can tell that they were struggling, but they didn’t ever show it,” said Horacio Ortiz, a sophomore.
Plummer’s students decided to do something about it.
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