Opening the Gate

When you arrive at a gate that is closed, the next step is to open it. But what if it won’t just open? It may have an electric gate opener that is simply not plugged in, or the battery that controls it isn’t charged enough to function. It could have a chain with a lock that needs a key you don’t have, or it’s a combination lock and you don’t have the combination needed to open it. So what are your options?

Most of the time you reach out to a person that can help get it open because either they installed it or have the knowledge to enable you to open the gate. And when the gate swings open, the opportunity to enter is wide open before you – much in the same way the future is wide open and available to a student.

From the time children start to be able to voice an opinion about their personal future, they are often asked what they want to be when they grow up. And depending on the influences in their life, the answers are varied. You may have future firefighters or police officers, doctors or nurses, gymnasts or actors, welders or plumbers, teachers or cowboys. Regardless of their choices, children know there are opportunities waiting on them – sometimes behind a closed gate.

And this is where the Forney Education Foundation can come to the aid of students waiting at the gate. Because FEF listens to the district teachers as well as the administrative staff, there are many funding opportunities to open the gate through teacher-requested grants as well as providing backpacks and other aids to students.

Do you have the key or combination to the lock on the future? Can you provide the needed how-to to fix the electric gate opener? The odds are greatly in favor of the students in Forney ISD because of the Forney Community that steps up and helps. Please visit www.forneyisdfoundation. org and see how you can open the gate!