We see rivalry, competition everywhere, whether it is business, sports, or various organizations.
Of course, schools are no exception. School is the place where we start to learn to compete with others. While competition helps us perform better at certain tasks, it hardly ever teaches us to help others. So when we see kind acts where kids choose to help others instead of working hard to be the best, it makes us happy. One of those kids is a student of Winston Lee.
Recently, Lee, a history teacher from Kentucky, shared a test with a heart-touching note written by one of his students. “Our students, though often faced with a difficult circumstance, never cease to amaze. They too can be hard-working, caring, and good,” Lee told Bored Panda.
The high schooler, who is a straight A+ student, requested the teacher to give his 5 bonus points to the student in his class got the lowest on the test. The student had a chance to gain 99 points on the test. But he decided to show kindness to someone by giving his extra points who needed them more than he did.
“The guy is awesome. We’ve had huge political debates in class this year (we keep it friendly), and my man always has some awesome, intelligent input,” the history teacher said.
“Students had played an interactive review game the day before, playing along on an app in an attempt to score points by answering questions concerning the exam content.
Of course, he killed it, earning him 5 bonus points for the WWII exam.”
Lee was touched by the boy’s selflessness: “Most honor students cling to every point possible!”
The teacher respected the student’s request. This act of kindness helped the boy to pass the test. “No doubt a peculiar situation, but the points are his and he wishes to kindly gift them to someone else.
Honored and granted! Another student scores 58% (needs 60% to pass). Boom, now 63%,” the teacher said.
“She was grateful for the mystery points and I pray she pays it forward. As is the ultimate lesson on the day. Ah, other questions to mind, “correct classroom procedure?”, I’m not sure. “Is being led by compassion, kindness, and love, ever considered a wrong answer?”. Oddly enough, the student has taught the lesson.”
While many people appreciated the hard-working student for his kindness, others didn’t think the teacher made the right choice. People said the test scores are supposed to reflect the student’s knowledge and should not be given away freely.
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