Teacher Challenges Students to Change the World, $10 At a Time

High school English teacher Pat Colangeli is testing a unique theory: whether 20 kids armed with $10 each can change the world a little bit at a time, reports Mary Beth Lane in the Columbus Dispatch. Colangeli recently handed every student in her second-period class a $10 bill and told them they could keep it or donate it. Her hope is to engage students around community involvement and fill a necessity for their neighborhoods because their "community is not the richest." Student Betsey Brown wants to put the money toward fighting cancer (she unfortunately lost her dad to the disease), while Joni Palmer wants to fight breast cancer, which took her grandmother. Another student wants to help the Ronald McDonald House at Nationwide Children’s Hospital because she and her family stayed there when her little sister was treated for a tumor. Another, perhaps more entrepreneurial student advised that they should "go door to door and get other classmates and clubs involved and then vote to pick a couple of organizations" to support. It sounds like the experiment is already working. To read more, CLICK HERE.