31 efforts for none
Mood:  rushed
I went to work on Monday to find out that my one student who did pass to the GED got sent back to prison. He was a young man, maybe twenty-one, who once in a while liked to, as many would say in Detroit, "Talk out of the side of his face". He had tried this in my class once the week before and I told him that his disguised aggression would get him nowhere, and that one day he'd see (he would not even look at me when I attempted to give him the tip). Turns out he ripped up a demerit that an operations staff member gave him for talking in an AA meeting and he got sent right back to the slammer. In some ways, I am sad that in March he will not be able to take his GED for which he worked with me for the past year. In most ways, though, I am happy he learned his lesson in a way that did not get him killed on the streets.