Johnny Cook is a man from Georgia who lost his job because he stayed true to his values and principles.

Johnny now works as a horse trainer, but he previously was employed as a bus driver for Haralson County Middle School. Back in 2013, a little boy boarded his bus after school and told him that he was starving. When Johnny asked him why he had not eaten anything, the boy said the school refused to serve him lunch because he did not have 40 cents to pay for it. Johnny was furious that the school would leave a little boy hungry in this way, so he took to social media to vent his frustrations.

“Huh! What! This child is already on reduced lunch and we can’t let him eat. Are you kidding me?” Johnny wrote. “I’m certain there was leftover food thrown away today. But kids were turned away because they didn’t have .40 on there account.”

The post quickly went viral, with many people agreeing with Johnny.

When the school superintendent got wind of Johnny’s post, he was infuriated by it. He then issued an ultimatum to the bus driver: either apologize for the story and admit it was a lie, or get fired. Johnny chose the latter, as he refused to ever say sorry for doing the right thing.

“I felt like, in my heart of hearts, the kid was telling me the truth,” Johnny said. “Whether he was, whether he wasn’t, I believed him, so I wasn’t going to recant the story.”

The superintendent has claimed that the boy was lying, alleging that security cameras prove the child wasn’t even in the lunch line that day. The superintendent added that if the boy really didn’t have money, the school would have offered him a bagged lunch.

Watch the video below to get both sides of the story.