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About Rebekah Taft

Age: 17
School: Herron High School
Grade: 11
Stories by Rebekah
When Tamika Catchings was a kid, she did not show any signs of becoming an international basketball superstar. She was a girl with a speech impediment, hearing aids and braces. Children teased her, and she'd often come home crying, frustrated with school and life.
When Josiah Kaufman was a freshman at Carmel High School, he would bring his lunch every day. When the period was over, he would help his friends return their lunch trays out of "courtesy," he said. Soon, he began helping other students clean up. "It became this thing where I went all around the cafeteria and started picking up everyone's trays when they were done. It was so funny. People were like, 'Why in the world are you doing this?'" Josiah was just being nice. It also was his way of adapting to new people and a new school system. It was Josiah's first year in a public school.