Sunday, October 7, 2012

Taylor Swift donates to a school for deaf



Online trolls can be so mean, but Taylor Swift is doing something to prevent im.Pop superstar, who wrote the song before the bullies Mean is donating money and concert tickets to a school for deaf victim of Internet pranksters Boston.

According to the Associated Press, VH1 Save the Music sponsored online contest among the schools and colleges on campus Swift concert in the winning school. But Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston was disqualified because a lot of the votes were from pranksters who thought it would be fun for a school for non-hearing students to win the show.

But that was not the end. Instead, each student K-12 schools will receive a ticket for the next local Swift concert. She and contest sponsors also donated $ 50,000 to the school, and the Save the Music won $ 10,000 in musical instruments.

"Any kind of special instrument that can be purchased to bring music alive of these students will go a long way," said Boston Public Schools spokesman Matt Wilder.

Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., won a competition for a concert on campus and a $ 10,000 grant for their music department. Plus four other schools as scholarship: Seton High School in Cincinnati, Terra Environmental Research Institute in Miami, Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California, and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.

Swift is currently promoting his fourth record, red, released on October 22. She has sold over 22 million albums, and her latest, Speak Now, sold more than a million in the first week.

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