Elizabeth Wilson paints in English teacher Stefan Hunt’s classroom Saturday at Red Bank High School. Wilson will be a junior this year. Volunteers kicked off a one-week makeover project to paint and clean the school.After she left Red Bank High School late Friday evening, Deb Weiss’ restless mind was racing.
“I couldn’t sleep. I was as excited about this as I am about the first day of school,” she said.
Weiss, a Red Bank teacher for nine years, was up bright and early for the Saturday morning kickoff of “Be a Part of the Pride,” a multiphase communitywide effort to spruce up the high school campus.
As students, teachers and community members began scraping, painting and cleaning the school, Weiss thought not only about how the work would brighten up the school, but the message it would send to Red Bank students.
“This says to them that the community supports us,” she said. “It gives them pride of ownership. They’re going to be the greatest watchdogs of this project.”