The goal of the Dr. Carol Gary DES Fund for Educational Excellence is to raise $10,000 to create a grant fund for teachers at Davidson Elementary School in Water Valley, Mississippi.

Once we reach that goal we will make the funds available to teachers who apply to the fund for specific, “big ticket” resources for their classrooms that can be used across multiple school years and affect the maximum number of students. In other words, this ain’t for chalk and markers. It’s for the kind of resources that can change the trajectory of the educational experience at DES.

Representatives from the DES PTO and the faculty at DES will make decisions about which applications to approve, so that the only folks making decisions about where the money goes are parents and teachers, the most important stakeholders when it comes to our kids’ education.

I’m asking you, yes YOU, to write a check to the Dr. Carol Gary DES Fund for Educational Excellence. Take it by the school and leave it at the office. Someone from the PTO will come by and deposit it into the fund. Or send it to me at 20 S. Main St, Water Valley, 38965 and I’ll walk it down to Mechanics Bank myself.

Let’s come together to make a real difference in the lives of our teachers and students. Let’s take a stand for education in this town. Let’s put our money where our mouth is and make sure that the work and legacy of Dr. Carol Gary continues to live on in this community and continues to fan the spark of brilliance in each and every child in this town into a roaring fire.