Transcript for High school students help elderly custodian retire
>>> FINALLY TONIGHT, HE WAS
RETIRED, BUT LIKE SO MANY, THE
BILLS GOING UP.
SO, AT 80, HE SHOWED UP AT
SCHOOL TO WORK AS THE JANITOR.
THE STUDENTS NOTICED.
TONIGHT, IN CALLISBURG, TEXAS,
NORTH OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH,
THE STUDENTS AT CALLISBURG HIGH
SCHOOL HAVE JUST DONE SOMETHING
EXTRAORDINARY FOR THEIR BELOVED
JANITOR, MR. JAMES.
MR. JAMES GAILEY IS 80 YEARS
OLD.
AND LIKE SO MANY RETIREES, HE
CAME OUT OF RETIREMENT TO PAY
HIS BILLS.
PRINCIPAL JASON HOOPER.
>> HE SHARED WITH ME HIS RENT
WITHIN A YEAR HAS GONE UP NEARLY
$400, AND HE JUST COULDN'T
AFFORD TO CONTINUE PAYING
WITHOUT GOING BACK TO WORK.
>> SENIOR GRAYSON THURMOND.
>> WHEN I SAW HIM IN THE HALL,
IT BROKE MY HEART, BECAUSE
NOBODY AT 80 SHOULD BE WORKING.
THEY SHOULD BE LIVING THE REST
OF THEIR LIFE.
>> SO, THE STUDENTS HAD AN IDEA.
TAKING THIS VIDEO OF MR. JAMES
AND POSTING IN ONLINE WITH THE
CAPTION, "THIS IS OUR
80-YEAR-OLD JANITOR WHO HAD HIS
RENT RAISED AND HAD TO COME BACK
TO WORK.
LET'S HELP MR. JAMES OUT!"
SENIOR MARTY EUSCO.
>> WE'RE JUST HOPING THAT
WHATEVER WE CAN GET MIGHT GIVE
HI
HIM A LITTLE BIT OF CUSHION, A
LITTLE BIT OF COMFORT.
>> TONIGHT, NOW 2 1/2 WEEKS
AFTER THEIR POST, THE INCREDIBLE
RESPONSE.
PEOPLE SO MOVED BY WHAT THE
STUDENTS DID, THEY BEGAN
DONATING TO MR. JAMES ON
GOFUNDME.
MORE THAN 8,000 DONATIONS FROM
ALL OF THE COUNTRY NOW, MORE
THAN $270,000.
AND BECAUSE OF THOSE STUDENTS
TONIGHT, MR. JAMES IS GOING BACK
INTO RETIREMENT.
AND RIGHT HERE TONIGHT, THE
PRINCIPAL.
>> HEY, DAVID.
>> PRINCIPAL HOOPER ON HIS
STUDENTS, WHO RECOGNIZED NEED
AND ACTED.
>> WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT WE
HAVE KIDS WHO LOOK OUT FOR
OTHERS, WHO LOVE ONE ANOTHER,
AND WHO DISPLAY KINDNESS IN
EVERY WAY THAT THEY POSSIBLY
CAN.
>> WE'RE COUNTING ON THIS NEXT
GENERATION.
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