Farmers Home Furniture Donates Rockers to Wheeler County Schools
Courtesy of Wheeler County Schools
As we as a nation, a state, and a community grapple with the staggering state of literacy, one local business has decided to take action. Farmers Home Furniture Manager Laurie Thompson and her team in McRae donated four beautiful wooden rocking chairs to be placed in the lobby of the Wheeler County School System.
The rocking chairs were placed in reading areas, along with books and bookcases to invite all who pass through or find themselves waiting in the lobby to pick up a book and read to themselves or read to a child that may be with them.
According to a 2023 article by GOSA, The State of Literacy in Georgia, nearly 800,000 adults in Georgia have low literacy skills while 56% of Georgia’s third grade students cannot read proficiently. Many children live in homes with no books. This literacy emergency is not just the problem of schools! We must all put literacy at the forefront of our businesses and seek ways to contribute to the solution.
Congratulations, Ms. Laurie and Farmers Home Furniture, for being an example in supporting literacy improvement in our community. Everyone at Wheeler County School System is forever grateful for your generosity and support of literacy improvement in our community.
