Country Day Fund Shapes Classroom Experience

Aaron Cooper Shares How the Country Day Fund Shapes the Classroom Experience Every Day

THE COUNTRY DAY FUND is the school’s number one fundraising priority each year because it provides critical, unrestricted support to our operating budget, impacting every student every day. Annual giving dollars allow our school to be nimble and responsive to changing needs and demands.

We are grateful to our parent community, who help get the momentum going every year by participating in the Fall in for the Country Day Fund drive at the start of the school year. Just before Thanksgiving break, we celebrated and showed our gratitude to Selwyn Society members at a reception at Charlotte Country Club.

At the reception, Middle School social studies teacher Aaron Cooper shared a powerful story about how philanthropy shapes the classroom experience every day. Here is an excerpt from his heartfelt comments:

“Tonight, I stand before you as the proud parent of two Country Day students. There are few things that I enjoy as much as walking my son, Asher, to the bus and my son, Bailey, to Rea Hall. Although it means we have to go our separate ways for the day, I know that, thanks to you, they are going to a place where they are cared for. A place where their curiosities can be unleashed. A place where they have opportunities to learn and grow as people at a school that is without rival in this town and in this state.

“Everything you have helped to provide me as a teacher, I see impacting my own children. Student-centered teachers in the room, students packed with wonder and curiosity, rooms filled with any tool needed to learn and to explore. I equate my sons attending Country Day to winning the lottery. It gives both my boys a once-in-a-lifetime experience filled with opportunities others can only dream of, and honestly, of opportunities I never had. The part you’ve played in making this possible means more than you know.”