I'm not going to pretend to know much about Travis Rudolph other than this simple act of kindness, but for this I will root for him. Here is the link to the story, but the short of if is him and his teammates were visiting a school (for whatever reason I don't really know, just says a goodwill visit) and Travis saw a kid eating lunch alone and asked if he could sit down and have lunch with him which the kid agreed to.
Travis did not know the kid has Autism and normally eats alone, because that is what happens in our schools these days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/u...e-at-florida-school-charms-internet.html?_r=0
You see, my wife works with kids like this and I'll try and stay off my soap box here, but this is what happens when these kids, for monetary reasons alone, are "integrated" in regular classrooms instead of getting the help they need. They get shunned by classmates, they eat alone, they get picked on and generally left out of everything and that is mostly because the other kids don't understand the situation. I don't think kids are mean by nature, but I genuinely think they don't understand and this is how kids handle things they don't understand.
If anyone wants more information about how awful and money grubbing our school systems are I would be happy to engage in that conversation, but for now I hope everyone would take a minute and appreciate what 21 year old Travis Rudolph did here. He made a difference.
I hope everyone who can make a difference does. Our kids matter and if you make a difference in a kid's life you have no idea how many lives you may change.
Thank you Travis Rudolph for giving a damn and taking a moment to do something life changing for one kid who needed it.
Travis did not know the kid has Autism and normally eats alone, because that is what happens in our schools these days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/u...e-at-florida-school-charms-internet.html?_r=0
You see, my wife works with kids like this and I'll try and stay off my soap box here, but this is what happens when these kids, for monetary reasons alone, are "integrated" in regular classrooms instead of getting the help they need. They get shunned by classmates, they eat alone, they get picked on and generally left out of everything and that is mostly because the other kids don't understand the situation. I don't think kids are mean by nature, but I genuinely think they don't understand and this is how kids handle things they don't understand.
If anyone wants more information about how awful and money grubbing our school systems are I would be happy to engage in that conversation, but for now I hope everyone would take a minute and appreciate what 21 year old Travis Rudolph did here. He made a difference.
I hope everyone who can make a difference does. Our kids matter and if you make a difference in a kid's life you have no idea how many lives you may change.
Thank you Travis Rudolph for giving a damn and taking a moment to do something life changing for one kid who needed it.
