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  • Ritenour High School
  • Saint Louis, MO
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Thank you For visiting my Donor's Choose page and considering donating to my classroom! With your help, my students will receive the same education that other schools with many more resources would receive. Please know that I am grateful for your donations and will use these resources to the best of my ability to have an impact on the lives of my students. My goal is to make their education an authentic experience and I can do that with the items that I have chosen on the Donor's Choose website. If you would like to see the items in use in my classroom, please email me at mde979s@gmail.com and I would be more than happy to post pictures of my students and the impact you have made in their lives! Again, thank you for considering my students education. Sincerely yours, Matt Elder

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Thank you For visiting my Donor's Choose page and considering donating to my classroom! With your help, my students will receive the same education that other schools with many more resources would receive. Please know that I am grateful for your donations and will use these resources to the best of my ability to have an impact on the lives of my students. My goal is to make their education an authentic experience and I can do that with the items that I have chosen on the Donor's Choose website. If you would like to see the items in use in my classroom, please email me at mde979s@gmail.com and I would be more than happy to post pictures of my students and the impact you have made in their lives! Again, thank you for considering my students education. Sincerely yours, Matt Elder

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