Jonesburg Elementary students packed the school cafeteria on Oct. 25 to show their love and support of first-grade student Monroe Andrews, who is recovering from bone marrow surgery.
That made …
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Jonesburg Elementary students packed the school cafeteria on Oct. 25 to show their love and support of first-grade student Monroe Andrews, who is recovering from bone marrow surgery.
That made Monroe’s older sister, Briley, pretty happy.
“I liked it because she has so much support,” said Briley, a fifth-grader at JBE. “Now everybody knows what she’s been going through. It just helps her because she knows people love her.”
JBE celebrated Monroe Day in honor of the six-year-old who underwent a bone marrow transplant over the summer and is not able to return to school in-person yet. She had her 100th day of post-transplant testing on Oct. 25.
“We decided to go with a Monroe Day, where she could still feel our love and support and do it in a safe way where we could scan in cards so she could see the whole Powerpoint of her cards over and over,” JBE first-grade teacher Sheridan Temperly said. “The teachers are bringing in a bunch of donations of her favorite stuff that I’m going to take to her, too.”
Temperly, who is in her third year as JBE teacher, has been visiting Monroe at home while she is still recovering.
“I go to her house to teach her after school most days for about an hour since she can’t be here because of germs,” Temperly said. “She is still immunocompromised right now, so we didn’t want to bring her in (school) to potentially mess up her health and recovery.”
A video was made for Monroe with all of the students shouting, “Happy Monroe Day. We love you.” Several students and teachers wore shirts that said, “Team Briley and Monroe.”
Monroe received Briley’s bone marrow during surgery over the summer. Briley said she hopes she will be spending time in school with her sister again like last year.
“I miss that because every single time I would see her in the hallways, she would either give me a hug or she would give me a wave,” Briley said.
Temperly said all of the students and teachers hope Monroe returns to school soon.
“That will be really nice,” Temperly said. “Kids belong in school. That’s where we want her.”
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