Students gather pennies for Holocaust Museum

I would like to offer praise and gratitude to my students in the Culpeper County High School Leadership and Career Academy.
Every year I read "Night" by Elie Wiesel with my students.

This first-person account of the Holocaust is powerful and poignant.

My students are always moved by this story of strength and survival.

When my students heard that the Virginia Holocaust Museum was gathering 6,000,000 pennies to represent the 6,000,000 Jews killed during the Holocaust, they immediately decided they wanted to contribute.

Therefore, during March and April of this year, the class of 2008 gathered pennies, and only pennies, for the museum display.
I am proud to say that in those two short months my students gathered more than 66,000 pennies.

My students should be commended for such selflessness.
I know they have learned a valuable lesson from this experience: that kindness is its own reward.