Saturday, June 30, 2007

Aiming High

RANT OF THE DAY

June 30, 2007 - An inmate at California Institution for Men received an associate of arts degree in business through a distance learning program. Thirty inmates received their Graduate Equivalency Degrees (GEDs).

Blevins, serving time for robbery, is due to be released in 2010.

"I'm working on my bachelor's and will try to get my master's when I get out," he said, adding that he would like to become a teacher.
If you think a criminal record precludes a person from becoming a teacher, you haven't read some online Department of Education board meeting notes lately. Honestly.