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Local superintendent to sleep on high school’s roof after students smash donation goal

Local superintendent to sleep on high school's roof after student smash donation goal (Tecumseh Local Schools via Facebook)

CLARK COUNTY — A local superintendent will be sleeping on the roof of a school building tonight after students raised money for a good cause.

Students at Tecumseh High School were recently challenged to donate $1,000 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As part of the challenge, the school’s principal and superintendent made separate bets with the students.

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Principal Aaron Oakes agreed to wear a pink wig and tutu for a day if the students raised $500. They did and he kept up his end of the deal.

Superintendent Paula Crew said she’d sleep on the roof of the high school if the students raised the full $1,000 goal.  Students went above and beyond, raising nearly $2,000, the district shared on social media.

Crew will keep up her end of the deal tonight and will sleep on the high school’s roof.

She told News Center 7 Tuesday that the district has 13 staff members who are breast cancer survivors and one who died from battling it.

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