Allegheny County

School counselor tweets about paper shortage in local district, community responds

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. — A local guidance counselor says she’s touched by the community’s generosity after she tweeted about a paper shortage in her school district.

Katie Couch works in the Sto-Rox School District.

On Friday, she tweeted that due to a “conservative spending budget,” they’ve run out of white copy paper used for worksheets, quizzes and study guides and teachers started using any paper they could find.

Since then, Couch says her account exploded with retweets, likes and responses from people who want to help.

“We’ve had a lot of donations so far," Couch said. "We had one business donate a whole pallet of paper and we’ve had a lot of other donations here and there.”

Sto-Rox serves about 1,400 students from McKees Rocks and Stowe Township. If you’re interested in donating, you can go HERE or call 412-771-3213.