CLARK — On Nov. 4, Arthur L. Johnson High School began its annual Change for Change Campaign. For the past three years, the faculty and student body have banded together to purchase holidays gifts for families in need.
EDISON — The Middlesex County College men’s basketball team made the holidays brighter for underprivileged children in the area as they collected dozens of toys and games to donate to the Toys for Tots program.
CLARK — Students at Mother Seton Regional High School in Clark have been very busy over the past few weeks. They have spearheaded the project “Send a Veteran a Christmas Card.” During their lunch mods, students stopped by to write cards with Christmas messages to the residents of the Veterans Memorial Home in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
RAHWAY — Franklin School in Rahway recently participated in a Jeans for Troops fundraiser, which was run by Matthew Mendez, a member of the school’s Blue and Gold Club.
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Peter Cappelli, “Why Focusing Too Narrowly in College Could Backfire,” caught my eye. Cappelli writes, “Students are told to learn the subjects that will best land them a job when they graduate. But that could be the worst thing they could do
RAHWAY — During the month of December, cadets from the Rahway High School Marine Corp. Junior ROTC unit solicited donations of toys from the school for distribution to families in need in the Rahway community.
ISELIN — The student council at Kennedy Park School in Iselin has been working to help less fortunate people this holiday season.
RAHWAY — Brooke Coehlo and Lucas Cano from the Blue and Gold Club at Franklin School in Rahway ran a Toys For Tots drive throughout December.
RAHWAY — Students in the fourth grade Gifted and Talented Program at Roosevelt School in Rahway are studying Physics and Newton’s Laws of Motion.
(via NJ Spotlight) Thursday’s passage of what’s been called the Dream Act — which guarantees tuition equality to undocumented immigrants — has left advocates on both sides of the issue feeling slighted.