A fifth-grade teacher at Brooklyn Center Elementary, Mari is entering her 30th year of working in education. Her passion for young people shines through, matching Myles’ energy and positive attitude.<\/p>\n
Mari emphasized the impact of being able to select school supplies for young people in her classes whose families may not otherwise be able to afford them.<\/p>\n
“For the Vikings and Caribou and Kids in Need to put this on, we can help other kids who are in need, and they can go through the school day without having to worry is amazing,” Mari said. “The kids are so excited when I hand them something and they’re like, ‘This is for me?’ You should see the smile on their faces \u2014 they treat these things like gold.”<\/p>\n
The significance isn’t lost on Myles, who noted several of his family members are teachers.<\/p>\n
“This means everything,” he told reporters. “I know people growing up who couldn’t get school supplies and would have to ask for things. This is just the right thing to do. It’s giving back and making sure [everybody is] on the same scale.<\/p>\n
“Meeting Mari, at first I didn’t believe her,” Myles added with a laugh. “I don’t meet too many other ‘Prices,’ so that was cool. I told her, we could be kin.”<\/p>\n
Mari and other teachers shopped for notebooks, backpacks, glue, pens, markers, world and U.S. maps, and several other items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fifth-grade teacher at Brooklyn Center Elementary, Mari is entering her 30th year of working in education. Her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,2529,6383,1025,6,234],"class_list":["post-1001787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-football","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-news-community","tag-news-index","tag-nfl","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117277120550008589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}