Kids Stand Up Against Bullies, Receive Award

A group of brave fifth-graders in Minnesota were honored this week with the school district's Spirit of Youth Award after they all got together and vowed to protect their classmate from bullies.

School has been tough for James Willmert. He has a learning disability and has had to endure constant teasing and bullying from some of his schoolmates. But that all ended this year, thanks to his new friends Jack Pemble, Jake Burgess, Gus Gartzke, Tyler Jones and Landon Kopischke. The boys had seen James get bullied and instead of joining in, as kids are often tempted to do, they decided to put an end to it.

At the beginning of the year, they all agreed to band together and stand up for James. And they did. In fact, they welcomed him into their group and showed him that he has five new best friends. And that's not all they did. When they found out that James didn't have a video game system, which is unheard of these days, they stepped up an got him one – with his mother's permission, of course. (KARE-TV)

Really a touching story, that I want to hear more of. Good news like this needs to be shared.