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tmcsaunders

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Aug 15, 2018
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Hello!

Mr. King, if you're reading this, thank you. Your two books The Stand and On Writing changed my life. I can tell the stories if you or anyone else want to hear them, but let me get the begging and groveling out of the way first.

I'm a high school English teacher, and I have two sections of Writer's Workshop this semester. I would love to use On Writing as a class text, but we don't have the money to buy books, and your legal and tech team has done a very good job of keeping a PDF version of it off the internet.

So here I am, asking if you'd be willing to donate copies of On Writing to my high school. I have seven copies of it, and need 31 to be able to put one in each student's hand this semester. With 13 additional copies, I'd have enough that we can read in class, and share between the two classes.

Thank you to anyone who has help or ideas to offer!

(Note: I've looked at other options. GoFundMe takes a percentage of donations and DonorsChoose doesn't do partial funding, so if you only meet half your goal, you don't get anything. I have a huge family, so buying myself is out, and most of our district is Title I, so I can't in good conscience ask the kids to get their own copies.)
 

Neesy

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Hello!

Mr. King, if you're reading this, thank you. Your two books The Stand and On Writing changed my life. I can tell the stories if you or anyone else want to hear them, but let me get the begging and groveling out of the way first.

I'm a high school English teacher, and I have two sections of Writer's Workshop this semester. I would love to use On Writing as a class text, but we don't have the money to buy books, and your legal and tech team has done a very good job of keeping a PDF version of it off the internet.

So here I am, asking if you'd be willing to donate copies of On Writing to my high school. I have seven copies of it, and need 31 to be able to put one in each student's hand this semester. With 13 additional copies, I'd have enough that we can read in class, and share between the two classes.

Thank you to anyone who has help or ideas to offer!

(Note: I've looked at other options. GoFundMe takes a percentage of donations and DonorsChoose doesn't do partial funding, so if you only meet half your goal, you don't get anything. I have a huge family, so buying myself is out, and most of our district is Title I, so I can't in good conscience ask the kids to get their own copies.)
Welcome - good luck with your project and I hope you find the time to post on the SKMB :thumbs_up::okay: