Undefeated Arizona high school football team lends bullied special-needs teen girl some tactical def

[blackjedii]

They’re an undefeated team used to throwing touchdowns, and now they’re making high school better for a girl used to bullies throwing trash at her

Comments

[chaya]

1. Good on these guys for being decent and caring

2. I went to a really unique and open-minded middle and high school... am I sheltered for being fucking horrified that students regularly bully a special needs student?

3. The fuck is wrong with a school that can't defend a special needs student from this shit?

[dancingspiral]

2. Yeah, a little.

3. Horrible kids grow up to be awful adults, and some of them wind up in charge of schools. Our school did jack to help our special needs kids, and they were regularly treated awfully.

[charenton_]

My younger brother, who has Asperger's, was routinely targeted and harassed all through school. It tended only to stop when his older sister screamed at the bullies to knock it the fuck off.

[tabaqui]

3. Happened in my high school. Poor kid named Billy Dunn. I will never understand how teachers and staff can ignore that kind of thing.

[poetic_pixie_13]

“They’re not mean to me because all my boys love me,”

[alryssa]

This gif sums up my feels right now.

[tinylegacies]

A+ GIF

[sorchekyrkby]

Pass the kleenex, _p. I got something in my eye...

[moonshaz]

Awww, here you go!

[aviv_b]

Got teary-eyed here.

[kitanabychoice]

Aww, this is nice. While I think it's a little strange that the mom reached out to the school's quarterback (and not school's administration, for whatever good they might do...), I'm glad he and his mates stepped up to the plate and reached out to Chy and make her feel good about herself.

[jettakd]

It could be that the school has had a history of inaction before. That wouldn't surprise me.

[tabaqui]

I think that she was probably well aware that the administration wouldn't give her any help. Probably in the past they gave her some line about 'well, we don't want to pass on names, we'll handle this, blah blah', and nothing got done.

Ah ha - watching the video at the source, the QB is apparently a family friend, so they're neighbors/same church/co-workers or something. Makes sense.

[kitanabychoice]

Ahh, that definitely makes it less odd! I thought so too about her possibly being jerked around by the administration, but I still wondered why she reached out to the star QB specifically and that answers that. :)