Help a gradeschool get a new playground! (online voting)

Note: I did receive permission to post this. Thanks to the mods for granting permission. An especially large measure of thanks to **TubaDiva **for getting back to me so quickly.

Please help East Elementary in Brownwood, Texas get a new playground!

East Elementary is a historic school in Brownwood Texas. It has 337 children and houses pre-K through third grades. It is a title one school with over 70% of the population living at the poverty level. However, the heart of the campus is one of generosity with a beautiful spirit of community. The love the teachers have for the students is felt the moment you step foot inside the door. Each morning the principal greets every child by name, and with a handshake.

Unfortunately, the playground is a disaster. The current playground consists of exposed wires, decomposed swing sets, disheveled picnic tables, and an unsafe metal structure. Although many of our days it is 100+ degrees, there is little shade. We have volunteers willing to work on the playground but are in desperate need of funding.

Last year our children at East earned over two thousand dollars. Instead of buying something that would benefit them, they voted to donate it to a little boy with cancer to go toward his treatment. Though the majority of our students come from poverty, their generous spirit is amazing. Please help us provide a safe outdoor environment for these deserving kids.

Right now the school is in 2nd place. Please vote!

Go to www.playgroundblues.net
*Click “PLEASE LOGIN TO VOTE”.
*Click the small blue word “REGISTER”.
*Click “CREATE NEW ACCOUNT”.
*Click “FINISHED”.
*Go back to www.playgroundblues.net
*Click on the orange “VOTE FOR THIS SCHOOL” button above picture of Brownwood East Elem.

Thanks so much!

Done.
Is this like Chicago where we can vote early and vote often?

Voted. Please let us know how it turns out!

I wish! East Elementary is currently in first place, but with a couple of weeks left to vote anything can happen.

BTW – I would loooooove to be able to walk into the celebration and tell everyone that we owe the playground, in part, to a bunch of Dopers. Wouldn’t that be so cool!

Wylie Prepatory Academy just jumped into first place! I’m sure they’re a worthy school and all, but they are a private religious academy. Please help support public schools by voting for Brownwood!

How dare they!
Did you ever find out if we can vote more than once?
Come on the rest of you take maybe four minutes and help out a good cause.

Voted! East is still second behind the private school… good luck!

Done. Best of luck.

voted for you

Registered accounts can only vote once, unfortunately. However, I would never tell anyone on a Chicago-based message board that they could not stuff the ballot box ;).

East Elementary has slipped to third place. We really need the votes. (And if you have an extra minute, check out the video embedded on the site. The kids singing the ‘playground blues’ is too cute.)

Thanks for the votes Tess, **Zebra **& Not!

I think that might be taken the wrong way…

Anyway, registered, voted.

I know I have a spare email address around here somewhere, let me look. :slight_smile: