Twenty of Davidson’s finest are being sent to the slammer next Wednesday.

In other words, a high school classroom for an afternoon of lessons, but as it always is with people of privilege they can buy their way out, unlike the unfortunate students.

Davidson School is holding a “Jail and Bail” fund-raising event Oct. 24 where 20 members of the community will be locked in classrooms with the students during their afternoon lessons. The “prisoners” will be working the phones at the school in trying to raise as much “bail” as they can between 1 and 3 p.m. for the new hardwood floor for the main gym as part of the school’s Sea of Blue campaign.

“The classes will be continuing on,” said Karielle Willner, a middle years teacher at the school. “We’ll be teaching and they’ll be in our classes interacting with us and just kind of having a fun afternoon. Who knows, maybe they’ll learn a thing or two.”

The school is currently at a little over $9,000 in their effort to raise $40,000 by March to upgrade from a rubberized floor for the main gym to a hardwood one. The Sun West School Division is replacing the floor next summer and gave the school the option to upgrade if they could raise the funds, so students and teachers started the Sea of Blue campaign where 400 floor tiles will be sold off at $10 each, thereby reaching the $40,000 goal.

To read more please see the Oct. 15 print edition of The Davidson Leader.