MLES students celebrate coin drive with slime

On Aug. 24, the students of Mt Laurel Elementary got to tape their principal and vice principal to the school flagpoles and “slime” their school resource officer. It was a reward for raising almost twice their fundraising goal in a summer coin drive.

Principal Celita Deem said the school decided to do a coin drive instead of bake sales or gift wrap sales. They set a goal of $12,000 to raise over the summer for new technology, student materials and teacher training. After a series of fundraising activities on the first week of school, the students had raised over $22,000.

“They did fantastic,” Deem said. “This is probably the best fundraiser we’ve ever done.”

In return, on Monday morning Deem and Assistant Principal Tina Neighbors were taped to flagpoles for more than an hour, with their feet dangling above the ground. Students covered Deputy Carnell Buford, the school resource officer, in green slime in the gym, and one student also won an iPad mini.