Classmates Help Disabled 8th Grader Score First Basket
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KELLER (CBS 11 NEWS) - An impressive show of compassion, friendship and dedication culminated in some heart-melting moments in Keller, Thursday.
Eighth-graders at Trinity Springs Middle School gave a holiday surprise to a fellow student who just wanted to be able to shoot a basketball.
Cooper Greene gets around in a wheel chair and has limited use of his hands, but he loves basketball. When kids are playing in P-E they would make shots for him, until they decided Cooper should be able to make his own shots.
"Our teacher, Mr. Cornelius said even if we don't get anything else done this year, he wants Cooper to make a basket," says 8th-grader Liam Morgan.
"He's always brightening our day so we wanted to make his day happy also," adds Isaac Ballard.
The students worked for weeks building a trebuchet, a type of catapult. Teachers bought the materials. Thursday, with their project finished, the students presented it to Cooper in the gym.
Cooper was all smiles. He pulled a string connected to the catapult and launched the ball toward the hoop. The first few missed, but then he made two in a row!
Dozens of students chanted, "Coo-per, Coo-per," as he prepared to shoot and cheered loudly when the ball went through the net.
"Such a great group of kids wanting to do something nice for somebody else without any benefit to them," says science teacher Jason Cornelius. "It's why I do this. It's wonderful."
All the students involved in the project are in the Peer Assisted Leadership Skills (PALS) program where they help special needs kids during P-E.
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