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从事教育行业31年后，一个选择让俄亥俄州一名校长丢了工作——他表示自己对此毫无悔意。
作为俄亥俄州辛辛那提郊区拉科塔东高中的校长，罗布·伯恩赛德（Rob Burnside）想尽办法与学生建立联系。多年前，他会在周五穿上造型滑稽的裤子，以此吸引孩子们主动和他搭话。
“我第一次见他是在走廊里，我当时说‘嗨，伯恩赛德先生’，”学生兰德留斯·海斯（Landerius Hayes）在接受《哥伦比亚广播公司早间新闻》采访时说道，“他立刻停下手上的事，朝我笑了笑，说‘嗨，迪迪’。”
海斯也被大家叫做迪迪，他当时不过是众多在走廊里和校长打招呼的学生之一。但在高三那年，一切都变了。
伯恩赛德对此毫不知情，海斯在课堂外正经历着艰难的处境：他无家可归。
“我没法和妈妈一起住，因为那地方并不安全，”他说，“我爸爸那边也出了些问题。”
他表示，自己有时会在车里开着暖气过夜，因为父亲住的活动房里太冷了。
高三那年，一封信件让海斯的私人困境公之于众：信上说他母亲有了新住址，且不在该学区范围内，因此他必须退学离开伯恩赛德所在的学校。
大多数校长可能会按流程办完手续就不了了之，但伯恩赛德却开始追问缘由。学区的答复是否定的——海斯不能继续留在这所学校。
“他不能留在这儿，他没有有住址的家长，家长住在别的地方，他应该去家长所在的学区上学，”伯恩赛德回忆道。
伯恩赛德回家后将情况告诉了妻子安杰尔（Angel）。
“她开口第一句话就是，‘如果他需要的话，可以来我们家住’，”他说。
这并不是第一次。伯恩赛德夫妇此前已经收养了两个孩子。
在得到海斯母亲的同意后，伯恩赛德夫妇向海斯发出了邀请。
“我们当时说，‘上帝啊，如果这是您的旨意，让这个年轻人住进我们家，就给我们一个明确的信号吧’，”伯恩赛德说道，“没过五分钟，我的手机响了，我拿起来一看，是海斯发来的消息：‘嗨，伯恩赛德先生。’我拿起手机，对妻子说‘我想我们已经得到答案了’，从那以后，他就一直住在我们家。”
现在海斯有了住处，但他已经被学校退学。伯恩赛德让他继续留校上课。这一决定让伯恩赛德丢了工作。
“我被告知，学区认为我无法再回到学校履行有效的领导职责，他们给了我两个选择：主动辞职，或是接受解雇程序，”他说。
伯恩赛德表示，他收到了一封将他停职的信件，最终他做出了“对我的家庭更有利”的决定。
海斯回忆说，他曾劝伯恩赛德，自己可以搬去和妈妈一起住，这样他就不会丢掉工作。
“但他却说：‘不行。你要留在我这儿’，”他说。
“我至今记得自己当时的原话：‘迪迪，你已经是这个家的一员了’，‘我们不会抛弃你’，然后我们拥抱在了一起，”伯恩赛德补充道。
在伯恩赛德夫妇成为海斯的法定监护人后，他得以重返校园。这也意味着这名青少年终于有了安全的住所。
“现在回想起来，我都不知道自己是怎么走到今天的。是啊，我真的不知道，”他说着，流下了眼泪，“一开始，我待在冰冷的车里，几乎吃不饱饭，也没法正常上学，只是努力想做个好人。而现在，我能吃饱饭，有房子住，像个普通孩子一样生活。每次想到这些，我都会感叹，我到底是怎么熬过来的？”
对伯恩赛德来说，他为这个决定付出的代价至今仍在持续——他无法在该地区找到校长的工作。但他毫无悔意。
“因为我们怎么能给一个年轻人的生命标价呢？”他补充道。
今年5月，海斯从另一所高中毕业。看台上坐着他如今称之为“爸爸”和“妈妈”的人——罗布和安杰尔·伯恩赛德。他目前正在朝着成为一名航空机械师的目标努力。
An Ohio principal allowed a homeless student to stay in school, and it cost him his job. He has no regrets
2026-08-24T12:27:00-0400 / CBS News
By Grace Baek,
Lucia I Suarez Sang Associate Managing Editor
Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.
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Updated on: August 24, 2026 / 12:40 PM EDT / CBS News
After 31 years in education, one choice cost an Ohio principal his job – it’s a decision he says he does not regret.
As principal of Lakota East High School in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, Rob Burnside sought different ways to engage with his students. Years ago, he would wear goofy-looking pants on Fridays just to get kids to talk to him.
“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.
Most principals would have processed the paperwork and moved on. But Burnside started asking questions instead. The district’s answer was no – Hayes could not attend school.
“He can’t be here. He doesn’t have a parent who has an address. The parent resides elsewhere. He needs to go where the parent is,” Burnside recalled.
Burnside said he went home and told his wife, Angel, about the situation.
“The first words out of her mouth were, ‘Well, he can come stay with us, if he needs to,’” he said.
It wasn’t the first time. The Burnsides had already adopted two children.
With Hayes’ mother’s blessing, the Burnsides made the offer.
“We said, you know, ‘God, if this is your will for this young man to be in our home,’ you know, ‘make it clear,’” Burnside said. “Like five minutes later, my phone buzzes, and I look at it, and it’s a message from him: ‘Hey, Mr. Burnside.’ And I grab it, and I look at my wife and say, ‘I think we just got our answer,’ and he’s been in our house since then.”
Now Hayes had a home, but he’d been withdrawn from school. Burnside let him continue to attend. That decision cost him his job.
“I was told that the district did not believe that I could go back in the building and be an effective leader, and I was given the option of stepping down or going through the process of being terminated,” he said.
Burnside said he was given a letter putting him on leave, and ultimately, he made the decision that was “better for my family.”
Hayes recalled telling Burnside that he could go live with his mom so that he wouldn’t lose his job.
“And the words that came out of his mouth: ‘No. You’re gonna stay with me,’” he said.
“I remember my exact words, ‘DeDe, you’re part of this family,’ you know, ‘we’re not gonna turn our back on you,’ and, you know, and we hugged,” Burnside added.
After the Burnsides became Hayes’ legal guardians, he could go back to school. It also meant that the teenager was safe.
“When I think about it now, it’s like I don’t know how I’m here. Yeah. I just don’t know,” he said, tearing up. “At first, I was in a cold car, barely eating, barely in a school, just trying to be a good person. And now, it’s just, I’m eating now. I’m in the house, being a kid. Now, every time when I think about it, it’s just, wow, how did I do it?”
For Burnside, he said the price for the decision is still being paid – he can’t get a principal job in the area. He has no regrets.
“Because what value can we put on the life of a young person?” he added.
This past May, Hayes graduated from a different high school. In the stands were the people he now calls Pops and Ma – Rob and Angel Burnside. He is working toward becoming an aviation mechanic.
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