Name: First Grade Teacher Moved to Tears by Gift for School
Uploaded: 2020-05-24T00:31:19.000Z
Duration: 7 min 53 s
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and I'm feeling especially grateful for them right now,

Future simple

an incredible first grade teacher from Oakland,

to students by reading to them every day during quarantine.

He's also been going out of his own pocket

His name is Peter Limata, and right now, he

thinks he's about to Zoom with a producer.

I just want to meet you and say, I think you're so amazing.

You're a first grade teacher at Emerson Elementary,

and you're doing so many beautiful things.

I'm sorry, I'm just starting to catch my breath.

And what you're doing during the quarantine

First of all, they count on the school for lunch, right?

It is-- I teach first grade at Emerson Elementary in North

Oakland, and yeah, it's a title I school,

so over 75% of our kids get free and reduced lunch,

and a lot of them come from very highly-impacted communities

and tough areas where even I'm scared to walk sometimes.

But then it's like, when I think of them,

and just the community there, I love them.

They chose me, and I think it's definitely destiny for me here.

And why did you want to read to them during this time?

It's very popular now, what you're doing.

To just even be here with such an amazing person right now,

But I chose to read because I wanted to connect to my kids.

I wanted to connect with them, and just have that continuity.

And so that's how I started doing storytime

It's funny, because Mr. Limata has always been my dad, but--

and yeah, it's taken on a life of its own.

But you started-- you were helping students long

And I know you buy all the equipment yourself

What is it about-- why do these students mean so much to you?

You know, it's what they bring to me, what they represent.

Being with them in the classroom has just been amazing.

You see their small faces, everything that they bring.

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First Grade Teacher Moved to Tears by Gift for School

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