Skyuka Hall students Anna Graham, left, Ashlynn Leal and Caldwell Hunt, lower right, wash one of several motorcycles for riders affiliated with The Curve Cowboy Reunion Wednesday on the parking lot at the school on Mountain Creek Road. Head of School Dr. Josh Yother, top left, talks with Curve Cowboy official John Murson, of Witchita Falls, Texas, during the fundraiser.Gerek Evans is in the eighth grade at Skyuka Hall, and before starting at the private school last year he received F’s in all of his classes.
“Now I get A’s and B’s, and today I got to clean a motorcycle!” he said Wednesday.
Evans and the K-8 school’s 22 other students, who are tackling a wide variety of learning challenges, were exempt from classes on Wednesday and armed with sponges and buckets of soapy water.
The students burst into shouts of excitement as they dumped water on motorcycle windshields and scrubbed tires clean. The motorcycle wash was a way for them to show their appreciation to members of the Curve Cowboys, a group that is donating money to the school on Friday.
The Curve Cowboys are members of an online forum for motorcycle enthusiasts. Chattanooga was chosen as the destination for the group’s 15th annual reunion that began Tuesday.