My principal, Ms. Lopez,” Vidal replied on the blog. “When we get in trouble, she doesn’t suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built.”
The post generated millions of views and prompted Stanton to visit Principal Nadia Lopez and her staff in person.
“I was so impressed that I wanted to help,” Stanton, 30, of Manhattan, told the Daily News.
Stanton and Lopez, who founded Bridges Academy in 2010, came up with the idea of a fund-raiser to pay for the annual college visits. Lopez says it would cost about $40,000 to send the sixth-grade class of about 70 students on visits to Harvard each year.
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