{"id":22510,"date":"2026-04-06T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22510"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:04:22","slug":"coach-goes-viral-online-for-this-one-act-during-kids-basketball-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22510","title":{"rendered":"Coach goes viral online for this one act during kids\u2019 basketball game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"298\">Teachers are often undervalued despite the vital role they play in our communities. Jonathan Oliver, a phys-ed teacher at WG Nunn Elementary in Valdosta, Georgia, recently reminded everyone why teachers are heroes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"602\">During a basketball game, kindergartener Kristen Paulk asked Oliver to help tie her hair. Kneeling to her level, he carefully braided her hair\u2014unaware he was being recorded. The video, posted on YouTube as \u201cWhen your job goes beyond teaching!\u201d went viral and later featured on <em data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"599\">Good Morning America<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"816\">Oliver, a dad-of-three, humbly said, \u201cIt was just a ponytail. We try to make them feel at home and loved.\u201d Kristen\u2019s mom praised his care, highlighting how teachers often go above and beyond for their students.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfg_LDhU4CE\" data-id=\"bfg_LDhU4CE\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"When your job goes beyond teaching!\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfg_LDhU4CE?autoplay=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers are often undervalued despite the vital role they play in our communities. Jonathan Oliver, a phys-ed teacher at WG Nunn Elementary in Valdosta, Georgia, recently reminded everyone why teachers are heroes. During a basketball game, kindergartener Kristen Paulk asked Oliver to help tie her hair. Kneeling to her level, he carefully braided her hair\u2014unaware&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22510\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Coach goes viral online for this one act during kids\u2019 basketball game!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22512,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22510\/revisions\/22512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}