I have awsome news to share. The school I teach at which meets the needs of low social and economical students has decided to let us do clubs to get the kids more involved in school. I decided to do a model railroad club and the response has been absolutely crazy. Out of 247 kids over 90% are jumping at the chance to be in Mayewood Railroaders. The principal is making me draw names out of a box to see who gets to be in the club due to the tremendous interest. The clubs start in 2 wks and I have held my first fund raiser to fund this monster and the kids raised $93 which is huge considering that most of them get free lunch and often wear clothes that are hand me downs. They are really looking foward to building and operating a layout. I had a sign shop here in Sumter agree to do any printing that we want so I am going to have him print a decal and we will paint an engine and create the first Viking Express ( since the mascot is a viking). I was wondering if the members of The-Gauge might be interested in lending a helping hand. We are going to be working in HO and Im donating the engine and some rolling stock but the track I have is old and brittle and probably trash worthy. Since Im wanting to do a complete layout we need everything you could think of. That extra ground cover you got lying around, those old turnouts you arent using, those trees you took off cuz they didnt look just right. Anything you can offer would be a mountain of a donation. These kids live in a world most of us cant even imagine. Going home to parents who do drugs, drink, beat them, work 2 and 3 jobs so you have to babysit your sibilings, not having food, power, (could you imagine living without power, I have 4 here that run an extension cord from a neighbor to have a light to see by). With a world like that to live in, its no wonder they arent interested in mathematics and the like. If I can get one of them to come to school just for the purpose of working on the trains, then we will have the chance to teach them something. There is so much teachable material in our "hobby". But it just might be our "hobby" that I can use to reach them. Kinda hard to teach them when they dont want to be here. My appreciation goes out to jasbourre for letting us have his old O Guage stuff, made for a great show and tell and sparked this interest they have.......Being a newbie here on the Gauge I want to thank everyone who has been helping me on my own projects and thanks in advance to those of you who will help The Mayewood Railroaders
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Mr Steigerwalt 6th grade Math
I can be contacted at
803-773-3480 (home)
803-495-8014 ext 202 (work)
Leroy Steigeralt
1246 manning rd
Sumter SC 29150
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Mr Steigerwalt 6th grade Math
I can be contacted at
803-773-3480 (home)
803-495-8014 ext 202 (work)
Leroy Steigeralt
1246 manning rd
Sumter SC 29150