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Ms. Karas from Brooklyn, NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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ESL Students Slip Sliding Off Our Chairs!

My students need 10 good stable chairs to sit on!

  • $578 goal

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My Students

My students are English Language Learners in grades K-5. We have a small converted office as a classroom and it seems we got last digs on furniture too! We've been using borrowed folding chairs that are too big and clumsy for small children. The folding chairs also get tangled up together.

Our school is a Title I school serving a low income population in Brooklyn.

My students' home languages are Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Haitian Creole, Korean and Spanish. We are a multicultural classroom. Some students come with no English at all and others come with limited English. I pick them up from their regular classrooms and bring them together as a group in my classroom.

My Project

My students are mostly in Kindergarten and First grade but I also service children through 5th grade. We are using an odd lot of left over chairs that are cumbersome and not comfortable. Students try to race to their desks to get the better chairs! I feel bad that they are so uncomfortable and that they have difficulty fitting the chairs under the desks. I have asked for new chairs for years but have gotten nowhere.

This gift of new classroom chairs will brighten up my classroom environment and give my students less of a distraction when they are at their desks.

The chairs I chose are just the right size and are a cheerful bright red.

Ms. Karas PS 312 Bergen Beach Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than half of 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

30 students impacted 21donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
CN216RD - 15 1/2" Classic Chair - Red • Lakeshore Learning $44.95 10 $449.50

Materials cost

$449.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$491.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.69

Total project goal

$577.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $577.93

19 Donors

-$475.81

Donations toward project cost

-$406.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.57

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.12

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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