Tuttle Elementary students got more than math and science in their half-a-day of school on Tuesday. Several teachers and a few students from Maiden High School visited Tuttle and read to the students for Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday.
Maiden High sophomores Cole Caldwell and Will Jenkins, who are both on the basketball team, came to Tuttle to read to Rachel Monroe's fourth-grade class. Afterward, they talked to the students about having good grades.
After quizzing the students on who played sports — most of the students — they asked them who wanted to go to college, which was everyone.
"You have to do good in school to go to college," Caldwell said. "It only gets harder, ya'll."
In Natalie Burris' fourth-grade classroom, Butch Parker talked to the students. Parker is an assistant football coach at Maiden High and the head of the Varsity Blue club for student athletes with high grade point averages.
After reading "The Lorax," by Dr. Seuss, Parker asked what lesson the students could take away from the story.
"Don't be greedy," said Javier Becerril, 9.
Parker said that was a lesson students could take on into their daily lives, and was something companies today could observe.
"It goes on all around you," he said. "You just need to take what you need."
Parker also urged the class to find a subject they were interested in.
"If you're an athlete playing ball, you can read books about it," he said. "If you read about Lindsay Vonn, you can learn a lot more about her life than just what they shown on the TV.
"I encourage you to read 10 pages a night. It can be before dinner or after dinner. Find a comfortable place and I promise you, you'll enjoy it," Parker said. "Reading starts everything. You can't go to college if you can't read. You can't play sports in high school if you don't have good enough grades and can't read."
Destiny Norton, 9, said she didn't care much for reading before Parker came to speak to the class. However, after his impassioned talk to the students, she'd changed her mind.
"I want to read," Destiny said. "I want to learn more about teachers."
Joey Yang, 9, said he has already read "The Lightning Thief," by Rick Riordan and is anxious to read the next book in the series, "The Sea of Monsters."
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