Waiting for the lunch bus. (Photos courtesy Brad Sherman)
Ready to chow down.
Brad Sherman is Coupeville through and through.
A teacher and head boys basketball coach at CHS, he and his brothers are the third generation of their family to graduate on the prairie.
Now Brad and wife Abbey have four young boys who are beginning their own school journeys in the town where their dad and grandma Deb are both teachers.
As everyone adjusts to the school shut-down brought on by the nation’s battle with the coronavirus pandemic, Coupeville’s Connected Food Program has made sure local students are still being fed.
One teacher and father’s thoughts, as Brad Sherman shares his perspective with us:
Brady looks out the window each morning when it’s approaching the time for lunches to arrive – he knows once he sees the bus turn on Sherman Road that he’s got about two minutes before they get around the loop to our house.
And when he sees the bus, and his bus driver (shout out to Mr. Jump), and whichever staff member is volunteering on the route to hand him lunches each day, he grins from ear to ear.
The other day, Mr. Kemmer was that staff member.
When the boys asked for turkey sandwiches, he responded: “Gobble, gobble.”
They called my mom to tell her how funny he was.
Our kids don’t understand the magnitude of what’s going on around them. They just know something is very different.
They miss their friends.
They wonder why they aren’t starting tee-ball.
And for them, this is about more than lunches.
It’s about a little bit of normal. That school bus represents hope.
It represents the hard work of so many at a school district that sincerely loves its kids.
Proud to call Coupeville home.
Proud to call this my school district.
And proud to work with a whole lot of amazing people.
Go Wolves!
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