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High School Football Team Is Protecting a Special-Needs Student

10/29/2012

Arizona's Queen Creek High School has an undefeated football team this season, and the team's quarterback, Carson Jones, is taking a stand against bullying.  Queen Creek is 40 miles southeast of Phoenix.

Chy Johnson is a 16-year-old special-needs student at the school who was being bullied, because she has a brain disordercalled microcephaly, which makes her head smaller than normal.    

Earlier this year, some girls threw garbage on Chy during lunch.  So Chy's mother emailed Carson and asked him if he could find out who was picking on her daughter.  Instead, Carson took matters into his own hands.     

He invited Chy to sit with the team at lunch the next day.  She's had lunch with them every day since.  They also keep an eye on her in the hall, to make sure there's no trouble between classes. 

(NY Daily News)