Amye Goff teaches AP Environmental Sciences astatine Clay High School. After having her location destroyed, her students took matters into their ain hands to assistance her.

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Amye Goff, an AP Biology and AP Environmental Science teacher astatine Clay High School, had her location severely damaged aft an EF-1 tornado swept done Bradford County a small much than a week ago.

Goff told News4JAX her location was totaled.

“It was conscionable swaying backmost and forth... the full house,” Goff said. “Things were breaking... and past I got locked successful the location due to the fact that the doors got shifted disconnected the frame, truthful I couldn’t unlock it and I unrecorded alone. So, I couldn’t get retired of the door. I had to ascent retired of a window, barefoot, successful my pajamas.”

Goff said she is thankful to beryllium alive.

Student raising funds for Clay County teacher aft location destroyed successful EF-1 tornado

“If it would person been 5 minutes either mode I astir apt wouldn’t beryllium (alive). I don’t cognize if it’s each acceptable successful yet. Just to know, it’s changed everything.”

One of her students heard astir what happened and stepped up.

Drew Boree, a 10th-grade pupil astatine Clay County, created a GoFundMe campaign.

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“She’s specified a bully idiosyncratic and she’s ever reasoning of others,” Boree said. “And I conscionable felt similar it was clip for her to beryllium appreciated and idiosyncratic other to deliberation of her. And I conscionable benignant of similar helping radical that are successful a clip of need. And it was conscionable thing that I felt similar was the close happening to do.”

The GoFundMe had raised $3,330 erstwhile checked Friday morning.

“Hi, precocious my teacher’s location was wholly destroyed successful a tornado that knocked down aggregate trees, 1 hitting her house,” Boree wrote connected the GoFundMe page. “The location moved 4 feet from the foundation, the ceilings are wholly cracked and the roof. They volition person to sound the location down wholly and re-build… delight assistance this would mean the satellite to her and our class!”

Goff said she was moved by his gesture.

“It takes a peculiar idiosyncratic to bash thing similar this,” Goff said. “And he’s lone successful 10th grade... conscionable look astatine the imaginable that helium has. He’s going to bash truthful much. He’s going to alteration the satellite conscionable by being him. You know? I didn’t privation immoderate of it. I was conscionable sharing what happened and helium took it upon himself to bash thing similar this. And that’s astir apt what we request successful this world, is radical similar him to bash and change.”

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Goff is presently staying astatine her mother’s location successful a spare country with her 2 dogs. She doesn’t cognize what the aboriginal volition hold... but hopefully, owed to Boree’s efforts, the way guardant volition beryllium made a spot easier.

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