First grader from Texas asked Santa Claus for food and a blanket
First grade teacher in elementary school Monte Cristo In Edinburgh, Texas, Ruth Espiricueta asked her students to write a letter to Santa Claus about what they wanted and needed in the run-up to Christmas, following a lesson about the differences between the two.
The letter, which was written by one of her students, just stunned Espiricuetu, reports ABC News.
7-year-old girl wrote to Santa: “I behaved well. This Christmas, I would like to get the ball and food. And I need a blanket. ”
“I never expected students to ask for things that we usually take for granted. I was very upset because no one should ever go hungry or freeze on cold winter nights,” the teacher said.
The next day, when the teacher asked the girl to explain why she wrote to Santa about such gifts, the child said that she needed a ball, not a doll, so that both she and her brother could play with the toy, and also added that she wanted to get eggs so that was what to eat.
“I had no idea that she was going through difficult times - she is always very smiling at school,” Espiricueta admitted and decided to share the girl’s letter on social networks.
Her post in Facebook inspired the school principal to start a fundraising program for students, with the goal of purchasing a blanket for each. In just three days, 616 blankets were made from the necessary 724 blankets.
The teacher said that there were several students in her class who asked Santa about basic things.
“Unfortunately, there were other students who included food, towels, blankets, pillows, bed linen, clothes, shoes and a stove in their list of needs,” the teacher said.
According to her, some of her students are not even happy about Christmas, because they know that their parents cannot afford to buy a Christmas tree or gifts for them.
One in five children in Texas — about 2016% — live in poverty, according to 22,4 U.S. Census Bureau data.
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