Tennessee offers scholarship to kid bullied over T-shirt

[Tanuki]

This is an update to a story that appeared on DU a few days ago.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27600798/vols-offer-scholarship-bullied-t-shirt-creator?platform=amp

"A fourth-grade Florida boy who was bullied at school for wearing a homemade Tennessee Volunteers T-shirt can now draw up his college plans, courtesy of the university.

Tennessee announced Thursday that it has extended an offer of admission and a four-year scholarship -- for the Class of 2032 -- to the elementary school student in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

The university will cover the cost of the boy's scholarship if he chooses to attend the school and meets all admission requirements.

The boy's story drew national attention earlier this week when Laura Snyder, his teacher, detailed on Facebook how the boy had been bullied after clipping a piece of paper with a "UT" design to an orange T-shirt for "college colors day" at the school.

Snyder's Facebook post went viral nearly instantaneously, and Tennessee interim president Randy Boyd and others have reached out to the boy directly or on social media.

After sending a care package with all sorts of Vols gear to the boy and his entire class, the university then created a T-shirt using the boy's design to sell through the VolShop, with all proceeds going to the nonprofit Stomp Out Bullying organization.

Tennessee says more than 50,000 shirts with the boy's design have been presold by the VolShop, "

[Gothmog]

1. Yeah for the Univ. of Tenn.

This story makes me smile

[tblue37]

4. Meanwhile, the NFL gave a lawnmower to a kid who is working his butt off to save for

college. Nothing else--just the lawnmower.

[irisblue]

11. Update on Young Master Clyburn

Source-https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article234928102.html

More at article

Snip-"And in the end, it caused enough of a stir that Panthers owner David Tepper decided to intervene personally."

Snip-"We didn’t really tell no one, ’cause it was like a private meeting,” Wendy Clyburn says. “That’s why I hadn’t even really spoke about it. ... All I want to say is that Mr. Tepper’s been kind enough to assist in Jaylin’s education future — there was a huge blessing towards his college fund.”

Snip-"And to date, he’s earned nearly a thousand dollars cutting grass — while parting with virtually none of it. “He might take two dollars out of it, or something like that. And he will take some money out of there to give to the church on Sundays. But other than that, he’s tight,” Wendy Clyburn says, laughing."

[lpbk2713]

2. Go ahead classmates, bully him some more.

Why stop at a four year scholarship?

[NightWatcher]

8. It is UT, so there should at least be some mild mocking.

[Initech]

10. Yeah go all the way to Ph.D!

[Stargazer09]

3. Good!

At first, it seemed like the university was just going to steal the kid’s design to sell some t-shirts. I’m so glad they offered him a scholarship.

[Tanuki]

5. Did you see that they are also donating all proceeds from the shirt

to an anti-bullying non-profit? This is really win-win.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kudos to the University of Tennessee Volunteers!

Thanks for the thread Tanuki.

[IronLionZion]

7. I need to make some homemade t-shirts for my niece

for Harvard and MIT or wherever she wants to go

Her Dad actually went to Tennessee so maybe them too. Good for the school for doing this.

[d_r]

9. They are going to

Let him start on the football team.