PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Dozens of Pasco County teachers lined up in their cars on Wednesday set to drive around nearby neighborhoods to wave to their students and put smiles on their faces.
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Math and reading are just two things eight year-old Isaac Hernaiz misses about being in school.
His teacher, who he has not seen in more than two weeks since the coronavirus closed all Florida schools, is a third.
“I miss my teacher a lot,” said Isaac.
So the Chasco Elementary School third grader has taken to the sidewalk to practice art and writing to let her teacher know she is missed.
“That one says, ‘Thank you for helping me grow,’” Isaac said, pointing to one of his drawings.
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Just up the road outside of Chasco Elementary on Wednesday, the teachers told us the feeling is mutual.
We asked them what message they might want to send to their students:
“That we love them even though we’re not together."
“That I miss them a lot.”
“We love you, we hope you had a great spring break.”
“We’re in it together with them, we’re still here for them each and every moment of the day.”
“I hope they know how much we love them and how we miss them and we want more than anything to be together with them, but this is as close as it gets right now. we’re going to make the best out of a situation.”
And speaking of "making the best of it," since the students couldn’t come to them, these teachers decided they were going to the students, proving that while the virus could cancel school, it could not cancel Chasco pride.
“Just to see the love that the school has for these kids, it’s emotional,” said Lucy Hernaiz, Isaac’s mother.