@mattvanswol This is an American story that proves to us we must vote in a November to protect our free country where people still care about each other.
🚨WOW!!!
An Ohio principal LOST HIS JOB after refusing to abandon a homeless 16-year-old student who was sleeping in a CAR.
He and his wife already had SIX KIDS… but they took him in anyway.
When the boy offered to LEAVE so the principal could save his career, he refused. ❤️
His name is Rob Burnside. He had spent 31 YEARS in education and was the principal of Lakota East High School outside Cincinnati.
The boy’s name is Landerius “DeDe” Hayes.
During DeDe’s junior year, his home life fell apart.
He says living with his mother wasn’t safe, his father was dealing with problems of his own, and there were nights when DeDe was sleeping in a car with the heater running because the mobile home where his father was staying was too cold.
...and yet, every morning, he kept showing up to school.
Eventually the school learned DeDe’s mother had moved outside the district. Without a qualifying address, DeDe was withdrawn from Lakota East.
That’s when Principal Burnside realized this wasn’t just an enrollment problem.
This kid didn’t have a freaking HOME.
Rob went home and told his wife, Angel, what was happening. Her response was basically: if he needs somewhere to live, he can live with us.
Rob and Angel already had SIX CHILDREN, including two they had adopted, but there was a 16-year-old boy out there without a stable place to sleep, and they couldn’t ignore it.
The couple prayed about whether they should take DeDe in. Rob has said that just minutes later, his phone buzzed.
It was DeDe.
“Hey, Mr. Burnside.”
Rob looked at his wife and knew they had their answer.
DeDe moved in with the Burnsides and suddenly had something he desperately needed: a warm house, food, stability and people who were going to show up for him.
While DeDe’s custody and residency situation was being worked out, Burnside allowed him to continue attending classes even though he’d already been withdrawn.
The district investigated Burnside for insubordination and raised concerns about enrollment, lunches and liability.
He was eventually placed on administrative leave.
After 31 YEARS in education, Rob says he was given a choice: step down or go through the termination process.
The 16 year old, DeDe, realized Rob’s career was on the line and offered to LEAVE THEIR HOME so Burnside could keep his job.
Rob wouldn’t allow it.
He hugged DeDe and told him: "You’re part of this family. We’re not gonna turn our back on you.”
So Burnside stepped away from the career he’d spent three decades building... and DeDe stayed.
The Burnsides eventually became his legal family. DeDe started calling Rob and Angel “Pops and Ma.”
Then this past May, Rob Burnside sat in the stands at DeDe’s high school graduation.
Not as the principal, just sitting there as a dad, watching the kid he refused to abandon walk across the stage.
DeDe is 18 now and is pursuing a career in aviation mechanics.
When asked he regretted what happened, Rob simple said:
“What value can we put on the life of a young person?”
When Rob Burnside had to choose between protecting that career and protecting a homeless kid who needed somebody…
He chose the kid.
And when that kid offered to sacrifice his own home to repay him…
Rob chose him AGAIN.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Read the update below & understand that, as Susan Kokibda (of Promethian Action) explained on the Stephen Gardener Podcast Tuesday evening, 8/25/2026, Trump has a strategy, and it is working!
The Democrats & fake news channels are unwisely repeating what the Iran military is saying. Susan says fake news should be getting paid by the IRG. That’s how bad & stupid their reporting is.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Space Force is monitoring the entire Strait of Hormuz, and our Navy is escorting hundreds of oil-bearing ships daily & safely thru the strait.
It is time for the Democrats to focus on eliminating communism platforms from their campaign and try to have a productive campaign instead of constantly shooting themselves in the foot over their out-of-control envy/jealously of the Trump successes for 🇺🇸. Every lie Dems foolishly repeat is another nail in their own party’s coffin.
What we are seeing & hearing from Democrat leaders does nothing more than prove there IS NO TRUE LEADERSHIP of the people in the Dem party.
El-Sayed is ill-informed as he speaks as fast as he can so we won’t notice he repeats communist propaganda.
He says ICE is not working because there are more illegals in the U.S. than when INS was in effect.
WOW!
The only meaningful change was the name.
El-Sayed ignores the 4 Biden years of open borders when Biden encouraged & even PAID illegals to cross our borders. Maybe El-Sayed believed the Biden administration’s constant “our borders are closed” lie repeated daily. Videos from that disastrous era prove otherwise. Illegal welfare roles show otherwise.
If you believe a word coming out of far left Democrat midterm candidates lying mouths, you aren’t informed, you are embracing communism. 🇺🇸 doesn’t owe our success to Democrat lies. We are a success because we ignore Democrat lies, & embrace the Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and love of God & country!
The Democrat party is fighting, unsuccessfully, for its life, and nothing they say can be believed.
Abdul El-Sayed has poor judgment.
When a politician resorts to bad-mouthing a sitting VP’s wife, he is getting desperate. Desperation is a sure sign a person knows they are losing. He also talks over his interviewer.
Poor judgment is a killer for a campaign.
Loser!
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
Life really can be beautiful when FREEDOM rings in our heart.
The Democrats are doing more to help Republicans right now than Republicans. The DSA Platform is a real vote killer. Republican candidates are being given gifts from stupid Democrat rhetoric, seven days a week, including Sunday!!.
@mikeroweinc
If you are the real Mike Rowe, I have this message for you.
I just saw the PureTalk commercial with you talking to your Mom. She did a great job! She might be receiving job offers to make commercials herself. I see where you got your spokesman abilities!
I agree because they do not follow the Constitution. They follow the last person they spoke with, who becomes their owner until they speak with the next person. They have no mind of their own, and look for constant approval from their “owners.” They avoid conversations with those who do follow the Constitution. Their minds are deliberately lazy, thinking that will gain them respect. A follower is a subject, not a friend.