GOOD NEWS STORY: Student splits $40k in winnings among runners-up

[OneGrassRoot]

STUDENT SPLITS $40,000 IN WINNINGS AMONG RUNNERS-UP

The event - a foul-shooting contest for top academic students at Compton High School in Los Angeles - was created with a simple premise: Organizers wanted to show the kids at Compton how to create community spirit with college scholarship money as the incentive.

Following a tear-jerking gesture from the winner - it appears the true lessons learned were by the adults.

The kids in Compton are more than alright.

Three months after winning the $40,000 top prize, Allan Guei donated all of his winnings to the seven other finalists.

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1237085

:thumbsup:

[Dappleganger]

1. Great story!

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. wonderful story

[DirkGently]

3. Nice going, kid. Very nice.

[TBF]

4. This kid not only understands kindness, he understands politics -

"I thought the free throw is a good metaphor in a world where there's a bunch of lines that are kind of dividing us,"

And he understands in a way that few on this website even understand. Way to go, Allan, and I hope you continue to look back and lift up.

[tblue37]

10. That was the contest organizer (Court Crandall) speaking, I believe. nt

[daggahead]

5. That's what I'm talking about! n/t

[Enrique]

6. we at DU think this is a good thing

there are some out there who will see this as an unamerican thing to do.

[OneGrassRoot]

13. Anyone who thinks that way is pathetic, imho....

They're fearful, pathetic, unpatriotic cowards. Loud, bullying, chest-thumpin' cowards.

Sadly, there are a lot of them out there though.

:(

[malaise]

7. K & R

for a wonderful gesture

[Lucinda]

8. Thank you for this...

♥

[Dawgs]

9. That kid is definitely not a Republican.

Wow!

[OneGrassRoot]

11. LOL! n/t

[Kind of Blue]

12. Fantastic story. Thanks OGR!

KnR.

[Enrique]

14. my parody of a right-wing response:

"this sets a bad precedent. It teaches those kids that lost that it's ok to lose. It rewards kids for losing, and when they become adults they will expect to get paid when they lose, and therefore they will always strive to lose. Allan Guei and his family should be deported to whatever islamo-communist country they obviously came from, probably Kenya."

[Mimosa]

15. LOL! That IS what they'd say. n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

16. OMG, you're right! lol n/t