A news station in Cincinnati did a big story on a girl named Raven Whitaker-Smith who got sent to the principal’s office in sixth grade, and it changed her life.
She threw a cup of yogurt at lunch. So her principal asked if that’s how she’d behave at a restaurant. Her answer was she didn’t know, because she’d never been to one.
Up to that point, she’d spent most of her childhood in foster care. But everything changed after that . . . because her principal decided to ADOPT her.
His name is Jason Smith. He and his wife tried fertility treatments but couldn’t have kids. So they took Raven in and turned her life around.
They adopted her in 2017. She’s now studying social work at the University of Kentucky.
