MONROE - Monroe Middle School students held their own march Thursday.
The seventh-grade students spent the past few weeks studying India and concluded the unit with a discussion about Mahatma Gandhi and the Great Salt March, a march made to the Indian Ocean in 1930 to protest British taxes on salt.
In their own way, students and teachers wanted to recreate the march but not with salt, middle school seventh-grade teacher Deb Freitag said.
"We decided to do a great food march," she said.
Each student received two bags Jan. 25. Freitag and fellow seventh-grade teacher Jack Cuevas gave them some statistics about people who need food.
The asked students to take the bags home and share the information with their families. Then the students were asked to bring the bags back Wednesday to give to the Green County Inter-Church Food Pantry.
The students planned to take the food on Wednesday, which marked the 60th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination, but school was canceled and they had to do it Thursday.
Freitag said she was amazed to see the amount of food the students brought in. This was the first year she and Cuevas held a food drive and the students collected 80 bags and boxes for the pantry.
Freitag said other teachers at the school took time out from lunch to escort the kids to the food pantry. The lunch staff packed brown bag lunches for the students so they could eat quickly and be on their way.
Freitag said students told her before they went home Thursday that they enjoyed the project and some told her this morning how much they liked being able to help others.
The seventh-grade students spent the past few weeks studying India and concluded the unit with a discussion about Mahatma Gandhi and the Great Salt March, a march made to the Indian Ocean in 1930 to protest British taxes on salt.
In their own way, students and teachers wanted to recreate the march but not with salt, middle school seventh-grade teacher Deb Freitag said.
"We decided to do a great food march," she said.
Each student received two bags Jan. 25. Freitag and fellow seventh-grade teacher Jack Cuevas gave them some statistics about people who need food.
The asked students to take the bags home and share the information with their families. Then the students were asked to bring the bags back Wednesday to give to the Green County Inter-Church Food Pantry.
The students planned to take the food on Wednesday, which marked the 60th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination, but school was canceled and they had to do it Thursday.
Freitag said she was amazed to see the amount of food the students brought in. This was the first year she and Cuevas held a food drive and the students collected 80 bags and boxes for the pantry.
Freitag said other teachers at the school took time out from lunch to escort the kids to the food pantry. The lunch staff packed brown bag lunches for the students so they could eat quickly and be on their way.
Freitag said students told her before they went home Thursday that they enjoyed the project and some told her this morning how much they liked being able to help others.