Every Shingle Heart: 3 local teachers receive new roofs for the holidays

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s a vacation astonishment that decidedly adds up. Three section teachers are receiving caller roofs -- each acknowledgment to a roofing company.

Reliant Roofing Company’s “Every Shingle Heart Initiative” is gifting caller roofs to educators, arsenic portion of an yearly initiative. It is simply a programme focused connected giving backmost to those who give.

This year, 3 section educators crossed the River City are receiving caller roofs aft being nominated backmost successful August.

Seaside Charter teacher Sherrie Fekete, a 2021 inaugural winner, said this enactment of kindness came astatine precisely the close time.

“It’s conscionable been life-changing for me,” Sherrie Fekete said. “It’s awesome to spot them going retired to scope retired to educators... due to the fact that a batch of times we consciousness that we are looked down upon and that we’re expected to lick each the problems of the world. And sometimes we person much and much enactment connected our plate, it’s benignant of bully to person idiosyncratic instrumentality thing disconnected our plate.”

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Fekete said the caller extortion has taken a immense value disconnected of her back, and without it, she knew determination would beryllium much problems down the road.

“It would beryllium a struggle. It’s a stressor due to the fact that I cognize it’s coming, we’re starting to spot the patches wherever it needs to beryllium fixed. It’s conscionable a immense alleviation due to the fact that you cognize having kids successful assemblage and having you cognize life, successful general, is hard to prevention that wealth up. So, it’s conscionable amazing,” said Fekete.

Fekete was nominated by much than 20 radical erstwhile the archetypal News4Jax communicative astir the inaugural aired.

“It was coworkers, parents contiguous and past, and it was conscionable precise heartwarming,” said Fekete. “People ever accidental that I americium a large teacher, and they ever emotion me, but I personally ne'er truly believed it,” said Fekete.“This has benignant of helped maine beryllium capable to judge that hey possibly I americium worthy. It’s conscionable benignant of been precise astonishing to maine that this institution reached retired and wanted to assistance educators successful a way.”

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When this year’s contention was launched a fewer months ago, Sean Shapiro, the roofing company’s CEO, said teachers merit this enactment of kindness present much than ever.

“They’re the frontline workers who don’t get each of the notoriety arsenic immoderate of the different frontline workers. It’s adjacent and beloved to my bosom and my partner’s heart. My woman is really a schoolteacher present successful Duval County and we person immoderate erstwhile teachers present that enactment for america astatine Reliant, truthful we recognize the agelong days and agelong hours that they enactment successful for those kids to normalize beingness astatine schoolhouse during Covid,” said Sean Shapiro, Reliant Roofing Company’s CEO.

Another pedagogue nominated was Michelle Wadsworth, a Math Interventionist astatine Ramona Boulevard Elementary and The Bridge to Success Academy.

Michelle’s friend, Amanda, nominated her for the 2021 Every Shingle Heart Program.

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“Due to Covid and immoderate different unforeseen circumstances, Michelle has taken successful her friend’s girl and 3 children, a nephew who had obscurity other to go, and precocious a person who mislaid her location and was going to go homeless,” Amanda said. “During the summer, alternatively of recuperating from the accent of the schoolhouse year, she often runs “grandma and me” playtime astatine her location for anyone’s kids, for free. She spends her ain wealth to marque definite that teachers and students person everything that they request to beryllium palmy successful schoolhouse and life. Michelle has been utilizing a bucket to drawback the h2o successful her surviving room. This extortion would beryllium eden connected world for her. There is nary 1 much deserving.”

Jerry Langford, a Physics and Forensic Science Teacher astatine Sandalwood High School, was the last teacher to person a caller roof.

Jerry’s brother, Kelley, nominated him for a caller roof.

“Jerry has been teaching successful Duval County for astir 30 years,” Kelley, stated. “After suffering a catastrophic wounded successful assemblage that near him paralyzed, helium decided to go a teacher. Jerry has positively impacted the lives of thousands of students. Over the years parents person written countless letters astir the effect helium has had.”

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Thank you, educators, for each the hard enactment you bash passim the year!

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