Student Keeps His Word by Wearing Same Shoes for 4 Years

Get a life!!

It's not about the shoes! It's about someone in this country actually keeping their word. Now a days, a person's word is no better than a bag flapping in the wind. It's here today and gone tomorrow. A person's word is nothing but hot air anymore. This boy made his word as solid as it once was years ago, strong and believeable because he backed his word. He stuck up for himself, stood out from the rest. Yes He could have bought a new pair of shoes, but the fact that he didn't and has gone 4 years in the same ones isn't bagging on the kids out there who can't afford it. If anything, maybe it will help them. Maybe it will show them that if they keep their word too, this country just may be able to pull itself out of the sinking S*** hole it has created. A person's word should be better than any money out there. I say way to go!!!

P f'n U!

Well Jaime this is newsworthy story obviously got your attention & look you are talking about it. Which is why they do these stories. Not only that but maybe if you let you daughter read this she will realize you can go 4 years with the same thing & not spoil her with a new cell phone or a laptop. What the heck does an 8 year old need a laptop & a cell phone for anyway? If an 8 yr old has a cell phone it should be the ones that can only dial particular numbers like Mom, Dad, Gpa, Gma, & of course emergency number. Good to know you are TRYING to teach her that she doesn't NEED those things. Should've thought about that before giving them to her at the age or 8.

I think this story is great & hopefully more people will learn from it. Teenagers don't NEED A&F or some designer jeans. Some good old tennis shoes are great!

That's your fault. An 11 year old has no need for a cell phone. You taught her to be a little diva who has to have everything. So you fix it and don't criticize some one who behaves in a more responsible manner than you.

The story is about a guy keeping his word. And if you can't read this article and realize that then why are you even reading this article.

Jaime, PLEASE! Just shut up! This was a nice story about a good kid. I'll bet he goes farther in life than you could possibly hope to with your crappy attitude!

Jaime Why is a 12 year old telling you what to do? You are the very one you are talking about in you comments!

You say it's not newsworthy? Maybe. Maybe not. But on a daily basis, every newspaper, every magazine, every click of the mouse brings us stories of gloom and doom. Reading something lighthearted once in a while is refreshing to those of us that still manage to find joy in simplicity.

This guys is a clown. A complete dousche bag

Jamie: grow the heck up. I think it is SO refreshing to read NEWS like this! In this day and age of teenagers who are lazy, drug addicts, uncaring , theives and or violent THIS young man made my day. maybe all you want to read about is terror, war, death, accidents, crime, etc. Maybe if more stories circulated like this one more kids would grow up with a different outlook.

Actually Jaime,

What this news worthy article showed is that there isn't all bad, horrific, mean-spirited, cruel people in the world which is what is talked about every day, all day in the news. I have great admiration for a student with that much personal responsibility for their own self awareness. This was a silly bet that turned this teenager into a retrospective, personally effected human being. You don't get that good feeling with the current news programs full of hatred, profiling, political scandal, abuse and the like.

This is supposed to be a feel good story, not something earth shattering. Get over yourself.

Jaime,
Why complain about whether it is newsworthy or not. You chose to read it. You could have stopped reading it, and gone on your merry way without wasting your precious time griping. I see you wrote another comment. God bless you! You are one bitter woman.

wow you managed to turn a story that you didn't believe was even news worthy into your very own soapbox/platform to whine about you stepdaughter. Issues?

Yes, but have you worn those shoes every day for the 4 years you've owned them? Duh.

CARRIE & YARDUSDOGGUS- If you had paid attention to what I wrote, you would have noticed I said she is my STEP-daughter. Obviously, if I am trying to teach her these things, it means that I DIDNT GIVE THOSE THINGS TO HER IN THE FIRST PLACE. Her mother did. Her mother, who doesnt care enough to try to teach her anythign, who cant be bothered to be in her life and tries to buy her love and respect with expensive toys, eg. laptops and cell phones. I have lived with her and raised her, along with her father, since she was 2 years old, and I was 19. (Im 29 now). I was not ready for a child at 19 but I have loved her and done my best to teach her what is really important. And I am constantly contradicted by her mothers pathetic attempt to replace her motherhood with gifts. Its not easy and I do my best. So how dare you say I spoiled her and that she is a diva. She was abandoned by her mother at 1 year old and becasue the court awarded her visitation, every other weekend, she waited for her mother to come pick her up, her mother, who would say she is on her way, and would never show up. I was the one who would hold her and rock her while she cried for her mother who showed up sporatically, at best. It got to the point where we just stopped telling her that her mother was coming to see her, until we saw her pull up in the driveway. Becasue she so often didnt show. She had a lot to make up for and she believed the best way to do it was to buy her things. I disagree. Her love is what she needs. Not gifts. And all of this that I try to teach her is contradicted by her mother by television, by the kids in her school, over and over. She is NOT remotely spoiled. So maybe before you attack someone again, you should stop and think about what they actually said and that maybe you dont know what you are talking about.

his feet didnt grow in 4 years of high school? did he wear them after school or just in school?