When bullying backfires — a happy ending!
by Beth
It’s high school homecoming time, and apparently some kids at a high school in southern California decided to play a cruel joke and put Rachel Sampson, a 14-year-old girl with Asperger’s, on the ballot for homecoming princess. Rachel Sampson’s mother Kathleen was quoted in a story about the prank on NBC News saying, “Rachel has a lot of friends, but she doesn’t socialize outside of school, that’s a little too difficult for her right now.”
In the end, it sounds like Rachel has more friends than those bullies who pulled the prank do. After her fellow students at the high school in Poway, Calif., learned what the bullies had done, they rallied and voted for Rachel — and she won!
The NBC News story reported that Rachel Sampson wasn’t discouraged by the prank. “I decided that if it was a mean joke, it would drive those kids really nuts if I actually won and had a lot of fun with it,” she said in the NBC interview. “I’m just hoping that other kids who have been bullied are going to get a message from this and other kids who are bullies realize what they’re doing is wrong.”
Wow. What a great story. Rachel Sampson really is a princess!
September 1st, 2012 at 12:04 pm
I am Rachel’s aunt and Kathleen Sampson is my older sister. I know exactly how it feels to be bullied for I am Deaf and was bullied as a child. I am very *P*R*O*U*D* of Rachel…!!!
I just never get tired of reading about it!