These “Upperclassmen” really stepped up!
Colorado high school students fill a sixth-grader’s yearbook with kind messages after his classmates refused to sign it. Brody Ridder transferred to The Academy of Charter Schools in Westminster, Colorado, after experiencing bullying at his old school. The shy sixth grader says the situation at his new school isn’t much better.
When Brody received his yearbook at the end of the year, he went around asking for his classmates to sign it for him, and most of them refused. The three classmates who did sign his yearbook only signed their names and wrote nothing else. So Brody wrote a message to himself: “Hope you make some more friends,” and when his mom saw the note, she took to social media to share her disappointment.
When fellow Academy student Logan South’s parents saw Brody’s mom’s post, they talked with their son about the issue and ways that he could help. “We all just started planning that the next day we were going to go sign this kid’s yearbook,” Logan says. Other classmates joined him and a big group of older students tracked down Brody at school and filled his yearbook with paragraphs of kind messages and words of encouragement. “And then right after that, everyone in the class started signing my yearbook,” Brody says.
- He says he’s still not sure if the other kids who didn’t initially sign his yearbook will want to be friends next year, but it no longer feels impossible. He just feels better about himself now and has a newfound hope for the future.
Source: KDVR
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