Mike Enzi: “I thought I would deliver a little good news. It is a little hard to get good news these days, but I ran across some. I…”

“I thought I would deliver a little good news. It is a little hard to get good news these days, but I ran across some. I want to tell you about a man named Dr. John David Arnold, who, many years ago, started out teaching school. He taught school in Arizona. He had a little blue bus from which he had ripped out the seats and put in desks. He used that blue bus to follow the migrant workers from Arizona clear to the northern border as they worked, teaching the migrant kids. He came up with an idea. As technology advanced, he said: You know, if I give the kids a computer, I can handle a whole lot more kids. They could use the phone to send their assignments in. He did that. So remote learning has been around for a long time--probably 40 years. One of the benefits he found was that the parents benefited from it too. The parents of these migrant workers learned along with their kids. That program grew. Then he came up with another problem that he saw a solution for, and that is that, in Phoenix, there were a lot of high school dropouts and some kids being expelled. There weren't good results from that. So he thought maybe he could start a school for these kids, and he would only take a student who had dropped out or been expelled if they would sign a contract. They and their parents had to sign a contract before they could become students.…”