MaeMae

If what you are doing is the last thing you did, is that how you want to be remembered? Hmmm - think about it....

[Anne Payne @annelysepayne]

Coach Crane came to CMISD 8 years ago, and has made our culture UNCOMMON! He reached his 100th career win tonight as a head coach. He will be the first to give credit to everyone other than himself. It’s the BEST DAY TO BE A FOX!!!🦊 @luke__allison @KodiCrane @FoxUnleash

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@PandaMexiCaleb Bradshaw Swann Harrison Wars The Bus take your pick

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@feelgoodtale Happy birthday to you beautiful grandma

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@Avabelly__ Rude and disrespectful of you -you’ll be a terrible MIL

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@VinnysCorner1

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@EshaAA33 So we should be mad because he prospered - ok 🤦‍♀️

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@otokyo__ Over and over

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@VinnysCorner1 The Bus!

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@lady_valor_07 Lillian

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@TimTebow How beautiful 🤍

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

He drives a school bus in Dallas, Texas. But the kids on his route call him something else — Dad.

Every morning before the sun is fully up, Curtis Jenkins pulls his yellow school bus to the curb and waits. Not just to pick up kids. To see them.

For seven years, Curtis noticed things other people missed. The little girl who folded her paper lunch bag perfectly every day but left it on the bus — because there was nothing inside. The boy whose shoes were too small. The kids who got on quiet, eyes down, carrying weight no child should have to carry alone.

So Curtis did something simple. He made his bus a community.

He gave every child a job — a greeter, an assistant, a "police officer" keeping order in the aisles. Every morning he'd call out, "We're going to care about each other and love everybody, right?" And 50 small voices would answer back.

But it didn't stop there.

Over the years, Curtis spent thousands of dollars of his own money — money he saved by skipping his own Christmas gifts with his wife — on birthday cards, bikes, backpacks, turkeys at Thanksgiving, and 70 hand-wrapped Christmas presents. He didn't buy random gifts. He asked each child what they wanted. Then he went and got exactly that.

No donation page. No announcement. No cameras.

When the story finally got out and people questioned how a bus driver could afford it, Curtis just smiled.

"It doesn't take money. It takes discipline."

But here's the part that will stay with you.

When a reporter asked the kids what they loved most about Curtis — not one of them mentioned the gifts.

A fifth grader named Ethan, whose parents had divorced when he was four, looked up and said quietly:

"He's the father that I always wanted. In some ways, I wish my dad could have been like that."

Curtis heard it. Didn't flinch. Just nodded.

"That's the paycheck right there," he said later. "If I can get that, you can keep the money."

He wasn't looking for a medal. He wasn't going viral on purpose. He was just a man who decided, every single morning, that his bus would be the safest place those kids walked into all day.

Sometimes the person who changes a child's life forever isn't a teacher or a coach or a counselor.

Sometimes it's the person behind the wheel of a yellow bus at 7 a.m. — who chose to show up, and chose to care, when nobody was asking him to.

Tag someone who needs to read this today. 💛

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@Matt_Pinner 💯

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@amm9175 @LizD2706 Medal not metal

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@Paw_Vibe Ethyl

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@MrPitbull07 Yes!

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@Matt_Pinner All 20 🤣 and wouldn’t mind going back for some!

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@AdamSchefter Hopefully the Steelers pick him up

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@joeroganhq

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Respect

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

Statement from Steelers President Art Rooney II on Coach Mike Tomlin:

[Texas UIL @uiltexas]

Congratulations to the 2026 #UILState 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬!
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