Ohio school principal sacrificed his job after helping homeless student of the school.
According to CBS News, principal of Lakota East High School in a suburb of Cincinnati Ohio was fired after he allowed homeless students to stay in the school.
Rob Burnside who spent 31 years of his life in education, allowed a homeless student to remain in school after the district unenrolled him. He and his wife eventually became the student's legal guardians.
"First time I met him is when I seen him in the hallway and I was like, 'What's up, Mr. Burnside?'" student Landerius Hayes told "CBS Mornings." "He just dropped everything, smiled at me, and he was like, 'What's up, DeDe?'"
Hayes, who is also known as DeDe, was just another kid who said "hi" in the hallway. But that all changed in his junior year.
Unbeknownst to Burnside, Hayes was struggling outside of the classroom. He was homeless.
"My mom, I couldn't live with her because it wasn't really safe to live with her," he said. "And my dad, he had some issues going on."
He said there were times he would sleep in the car with the heat on because it would be too cold in the mobile home where his father lived.
During his junior year, that private struggle became public when a letter arrived saying that Hayes' mother had a new address, and because it was outside of the school district, he had to withdraw from Burnside's school.
