Published On: Mon, Oct 20th, 2014

Spanish River Principal, Students join ALS challenge

Spanich-River-Ice-Bucket-1-300x200By Jason Schwartz

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has drawn unprecedented attention and donations — $100 million and counting — since it was launched in late July.

With no sign of the social-media-driven campaign slowing down, Spanish River High School Principal William Latson along with the senior Class of 2015 and the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) wanted to do their part to support the challenge, which started as a simple way to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, also called Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

So Latson and his students raised donations and was drenched themselves, and then challenged the rest of the school faculty and as many students.

Superintendent E. Wayne Gent challenged Latson and his group.

About 300 students and teachers participated in the challenge, which raised roughly $3,000.

The ALS Ice Bucket campaign started this summer when a Boston College football coach, who is diagnosed with ALS, challenged his players to donate with a twist on the traditional end-of-game gator-aid dunk.

Challengers are encouraged to get wet or donate to the charity. Many choose to do both.

All donations are made to end amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

The Business Insider is reporting that the Ice Bucket Challenge has raised more than $95 million for the ALS Association.

The Association builds hope and enhances quality of life while aggressively searching for new treatments and a cure.

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