Substitute Teacher Living In His Car Gets $27,000 Check From Former Student On 77th Birthday – Video
A former substitute teacher who was living in his car received a $27k check from a former student who organized to raise funds to help him out. Jose Villarreal, from Fontana, was working as a substitute teacher in Fontana Unified School District, Southern California. Like many others he was struggling financially and was living in his 1997 Ford Thunderbird LX for decades. But things got even worse for him as schools around the world were switched to online last year to slow down the spread of COV-19. Villarruel said to the news station “I couldn’t possibly support my family and extended family in Mexico and rent an apartment here at the same time with the income that I can have,”. Steven Nava, a former student of his, said he was seeing “Mr. V” more often in a parking area, living in his car and he was shattered by seeing how a epidemic has left teachers without a job and it was then he decided to help him out. Steven told the news station, “every day I’d go out to work aroun
