100 volunteers rally to rebuild Scituate school village
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SCITUATE, R.I. -- The 19-year-old Pilgrim and Native American village that was vandalized last month at Clayville Elementary School is rising again, thanks to more than 100 volunteers who came to the school Saturday to rebuild. "It was amazing," fourth-grade teacher Cindy Gould said. "Absolutely amazing and so heartfelt." One man who said his ancestors came to America on the Mayflower and whose great-great grandparents once lived in Scituate brought his son and three grandchildren to help, Gould said. "He still felt a historical connection to the community," she said. "I made him promise to come back. I said, 'My students have to sit at your feet and learn from you.' " The villages -- the Pilgrim village that Clayville fifth-graders expand each year, and the Native American village that the fourth-graders work on each year -- are not finished, but Gould and Clayville Principal Karen A. Cappelli were confident they'll be ready in time for the school's annual Harvest Festival on Nov. 5. The volunteers traveled from as far away as Narragansett and included people from Coventry and Warwick, Cappelli said Monday. And of course, she said, Scituate schoolchildren whose fourth- and fifth-grade classes use the villages as hands-on teaching tools showed up with their families as well. 
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I hope the punks that did it were there helping too. It is disgusting how some of the kids today behave. They behave without any respect to others. Look at the kids who spit on the couple at the PP mall and then tried to beat them up with a little baby in their arms! Maybe parents ought to start being parents and be responsible for their children's bad behavior instead of justifying it and trying to be their best friends.
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