Every month the Parsons USD 503 Board of Education officially accepts gifts to schools from the community, and each is individually recognized publicly.
Some gifts are items and some are goods or services, while many are monetary and given to support classroom needs, activities, special projects or student clubs and organizations.
All gifts are valued, but on occasion there is a gift the district feels deserves added public acknowledgement, like a recent one from Mike Carpino Ford in Parsons.
Just before the Parsons High School summer driver’s education program was set to start, the district learned its driver’s education car had reached the point of being beyond economical repair.
“Mechanically, it was at its end,” Krull said.
With a budget for last fiscal year already strained by multiple funding cuts, the purchase of a new or good, used vehicle was not feasible.