- Many students at a Quincy middle school have been bringing blankets instead of winter coats to school.
- Tallahassee-based rapper ‘The Real Boston Richey’ stepped up with 200 new coats for students there.
- Watch the video to find out what this means to the students.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
After learning that students in Quincy were bringing blankets instead of coats to school, Tallahassee native rapper ‘Boston Richey’ has stepped up to change that. I’m Kenya Cardonne in the Quincy neighborhood where the rapper gave about 200 students here at James A. Shanks Middle School a coat and an inspirational start to their Thursday.
When administrators at James A. Shanks Middle School saw students bringing blankets to school, they first thought it was a trend.
Camry Floyd, Principal – “So we were kind of using some measures to get them to keep the blankets at home but then we realized that it may have been more of an issue with lack of necessities.”
A lack of necessities is something Principal Camry Floyd says 100% of her Title 1 students experience in some way.