Encouraged by selfless acts of Oconee students

Dr. Michael Thorsland, Oconee superintendent of education, took time this week to praise a select number of students for their selfless acts that have impressed others. Thorsland spoke about the actions that are encouraging to him at two venues—Monday night’s school board meeting and a meeting the following morning with the working press. One had to do with a skilled competition in which student teams from Keowee and Tamassee-Salem elementary schools competed in a three-county competition. Team members from Keowee Elementary realized that a team from another school had arrived at the competition without their needed building supplies. The Keowee students, Thorsland said, figured out a way to share their supplies with their competition team without taking anything away from their entry of toy cars powered by balloons. The other act of selflessness involved a student at Seneca High School, who gave $10 dollars to the parent of a Daniel High School athlete. The parent arrived at the competition, not realizing there would be a charge. The Seneca student, Elijah Turner, gave the parent the costs of admittance and said he did not want to be paid back.