Date: 4/3/2020
ENFIELD, CT – About 35 teachers, tutors and paraprofessionals from Prudence Crandall Elementary School in Enfield, CT formed a parade through town on March 28 to let their students know that they missed them. The parade, organized by fourth grade teacher Kelsey McGuire Bruce and fifth grade teacher Julie Nuzzo, wove through the sections of town where their students lived. The families had been notified through the school’s PTO page, and each teacher was in touch with his/her own class, so the students knew about what time the parade would pass by their street. The parade of about 35 decorated cars left Town Hall at 1 p.m., complete with a police escort and accompanied by Mayor Mike Ludwick, Board of Education Chairman Walter Kruzel and Town Council member Bill Kiner. They honked and waved their way through the northern end of Town for over two hours, to the delight of the children and families who stepped out in small family groups to wave back as the parade passed by.