Blocker Middle School started CC! in the spring of 2004, and it's working, if the actions of seventh-grader Xavier Nelson are any indication.

In September 2004, he was walking to the bus stop when he came across a wallet with a $100 bill inside. “I thought, ‘Somebody must be missing this,’” he said. “I couldn’t turn around because I would have missed the bus, so I thought I’d turn it into the police at school.”

At school, Nelson showed the wallet to his best friend Nicholas Smith. The pair then turned the wallet over to the sheriff's deputy at school.

The wallet's owner was 21-year-old Loruhama Jimenez. “I was so relieved to get my wallet back,” she said. “The money was for bills. I was lucky because most people wouldn’t do [what these boys did]. Most people would take the money and toss the wallet. I am very thankful to them for doing the right thing.”

“CHARACTER COUNTS! teaches students how to get along with people,” principal Richard Carter told the Texas City Sun. The boys' behavior was "very rewarding," he added. "It's good to see kids draw from within."