Other students at her school were calling her stupid, throwing trash at her, and even pushing her down. "She'd come home every night at the start of the school year crying and upset," says her mom, Liz Johnson. "That permanent smile she had, that gleam in her eye, that was all gone."
After trying to reach out to school administration and getting nowhere, Liz decided to try a new approach - senior Carson Jones, the starting quarterback of the undefeated football team.
Carson had once escorted Chy to the Special Olympics. Liz had simply asked him to keep an eye out, and see if he could get any names on the people who were bullying Chy, but he did one better. He started asking her to eat at the cool kids' lunch table with him and his teammates. "I just thought that if they saw her with us every day, maybe they'd start treating her better," Carson says. "Telling on kids would've just caused more problems."
And it just got better from there.Starting running back Tucker Workman made sure somebody was walking between classes with Chy. In classes, cornerback Colton Moore made sure she sat in the row right behind the team.
"I was parking my car yesterday, and I saw a couple of the guys talking to her and being nice," says offensive lineman Bryce Oakes. "I think it's making a difference around here."
The football team didn't even tell anyone about their plan, just went ahead and did it. All of a sudden, Chy started coming home as her bubbly self again. When her mom asked why she was so happy, she said, "I'm eating lunch with my boys!"
But what about next year, when Carson probably will be on his Mormon mission and all of Chy's boys will have graduated?
Not to worry. Carson has a little brother on the team, Curtis, who's in Chy's class.
"Mom," he announced at the dinner table the other night, "I got this."
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| Chy Johnson & Carson Jones |
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