Paulette Dorflaufer of Briar Cliff Road submitted the following letter in response to the outpouring of support she has received after she was dismissed from her role as an aide at Burnet Hill School.
• • • • My dearest friends of Livingston: I want to thank you ever so much for your support, love, and kindness in helping me [attempt to] get my job back with the Livingston Board of Education.
Yes, I would love my job back in a different school. I adore the children. Seeing them each day, having a conversation with them each day, trying to help them when they need it, and teaching them a few French words they can use every day. They loved it.
We need the Board of Education to be aware of all the untouched food and drinks being put into garbage cans.
There are so many people and families out there with not enough food. The market prices are going up and up! How do these families manage with dogs, cats, and children?
We as a community need to take a stand and have baskets or boxes for the untouched food and drink items. Call the agents in different towns to pick up the unused drinks and food so the people and children who are hungry and poor are able to have the food and fill up their stomachs.
It’s a disgrace the food and the drinks that are thrown out.
We need all town and all schools to be aware of this problem and not sit back and pretend it will go away. We as a team, as a community, need to make a difference now, starting with Livingston, to show the other towns what has to be done to save the hungry, the children, and the families all over the world.
Let us be the first on the map to help the children, adults, and families have food on the table.
We need to work together to get this done.
No more starving children, families, or adults.
We can do this with everyone’s help. Let’s be the first to end starvation. I am a Holocaust survivor from France and I know what it is like to be poor.
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