by Heather Laskin | Oct 19, 2016 | Inspiration
When a student got on his bus one afternoon and told him he was hungry because he hadn’t been able to get lunch that day, bus driver Johnny Cook couldn’t get what the boy said out of his mind. He took to Facebook to vent his frustration over the...
by Heather Laskin | Oct 18, 2016 | Awesome, Inspiration
When Josette Duran’s son Dylan asked her to pack him two lunches for school, she thought she hadn’t been giving him enough to eat each day. But when she asked him why he wanted two lunches, he told her something that broke her heart. “It’s for this...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 30, 2016 | Inspiration
When you’re a police officer you never know what kinds of calls you’re going to get. And you never know when one of those calls will change your life forever. After 13-year-old Cameron Simmons made a distressed call to the Sumter Police Department, Officer...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 22, 2016 | Awesome
Stacy Koltiska was happy working in an elementary school cafeteria. But after a new policy dictated that any student with a balance of at least $25 would be denied a hot lunch, she was troubled enough to quit after two years on the job. Rule 808.1 states that...
by Heather Laskin | Aug 11, 2016 | Inspiration
Attendance is a huge problem in many schools, especially those in inner cities or where the poverty rate is high. In fact, more than 4,000 students drop out of school every day. When kids drop out they have a 40% higher rate of being unemployed, a 70% higher rate of...