Cheater Pants
posted in Frenzied Daddy |It’s me, I’m cheater pants today.
Run For the Arts is a jogathon designed to raise money for the arts in our schools. Our schools here in Portland have been hit fast, hard and long by the Bill Sizemores of the world, and funding for the “good stuff” is way down. When funding is down, “nonessential” things are taken out; teachers are laid off, school days are subtracted, and programs like TAG and ESL are axed.
Most schools’ music and art departments have been stripped as bare as an unlucky monkey shredded by piranhas.
Miss B’s school has a weekly visit from a music teacher. He’s a great teacher- and writer of such songs as “We are Sanguaro Cacti” (think … a spooky music number). And this past year they had “artists in residence,” which has taught each classroom a great deal about their art form. Both of these programs are paid for by this Run for the Arts.
So, I’ve stuck up a “Donate” button and you can sponsor Miss B and her school through Paypal. You can either do a “set amount” (their suggested minimum is $1.00) or a “lap amount” (their suggested minumum is $0.25.) Run day is April 5, and the sheet has to be turned in by April 4 (That’s Monday). If you want to do a lap amount, leave a comment and I’ll update the sheet. If you want to do a set amount, just do the donation thing. I’ll collate the information and put it on her sheet. After the run day, I’ll let people know how much they need to fork over :).
One more thing; the form has slots for name, address and telephone. Feel free to make stuff up; I’ll use an email address for the address, and I’m fine with ‘unlisted’ for telephone. But a name would be nice (internet pseudonym would be ok with me), and an email address if you want to know how much your laps * lap amount comes to.
Thanks
