Digital subscriptions provided by the City of Gulfport THE GABBER.COM No. 2775
August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Gulfport Comes Together to Come Clean By Monroe Roark
CATHY SALUSTRI
Deb’s Laundry has offered to wash, dry, and fold uniforms for students in need at cost. Gulfport Elementary will arrange for the families in need to get services. Those in need should reach out to the Gulfport Elementary social worker.
On an otherwise typical school day last year, Marissa Dix received a message from a parent that changed her outlook about how some families get by from week to week. The Gulfport Montessori Elementary School social worker was making routine calls, checking on
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students who had missed school for a few days to see if there was any way she could help. Kids miss school for a variety of reasons, from sickness to a family trip to just wanting to be Ferris Bueller for a day. One student’s mother gave a reason she hadn’t heard before.
“He doesn’t have any clean uniforms,” the woman told Dix about her son. “I don’t have any money to wash them, and I’m not going to send him to school in dirty clothes because then there will just be a call from Child Protective Services.” Dix was stunned. Laundry continued on page 5
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