Posted on 05/29/2018 8:16:15 AM PDT by suthener
For the past school year, Corey Patrick has gotten up at 4:30 a.m. each morning to catch a local bus to get to Tarrant High School, in Alabama, on time.
Earlier this month, he began the journey from his Birmingham home as usual — but this time, in his graduation gown.
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I don’t get it, either.
I walked to school every day as a boy, and got up early to catch a bus for school as a young man.
No one so much as gave me a sammich...
It is a feel good story and good for this young man who sounds like a good kid with a great future! 15 hours a day for school with half of that sounding like travel seems unusual to me!
I walked barefoot ten miles every day to school uphill (both ways).
Not saying anything bad about the kid but that's what it is.
Seems like his family moved and he decided to keep going to his old school for his last year, or something?
I walked barefoot ten miles every day to school uphill (both ways).
Grrrr.........you stole my thunder again gator.........;)
in a foot of snow, even in summer.
In this day and age of whining entitled millennials I admire his tenacity......great!
It is commendable that the kid graduated but I think something is missing in the story.
1. Didn’t the parents attend the graduation.
2. Was he the only one in the entire neighborhood or family for that matter that went to school.
3. I thought school districts are responsible for providing transportation.
4. What was the scholarship to wherever it was based upon? Riding a bus to school?
Seems like his family moved and he decided to keep going to his old school for his last year, or something?
Yes, and the posted cynicism here is disgraceful. At a time when “Black Culture” ia in the $hitter, we should be applauding a young man like Corey. It's just too damned bad there are not a lot more Coreys!
When I was in elementary school it was uphill both ways. Up a steep hill from my house to the main road I followed most of the way to school and the main road was a much less steep gradient all the way down to were I turned up a street to go to school.
We sometimes took side streets as a "shortcut" but any way you went, we lived in pretty much a valley and had to go uphill both ways.
When I was in elementary school it was uphill both ways. Up a steep hill from my house to the main road I followed most of the way to school and the main road was a much less steep gradient all the way down to were I turned up a street to go to school.
We sometimes took side streets as a "shortcut" but any way you went, we lived in pretty much a valley and had to go uphill both ways.
When I was in elementary school it was uphill both ways. Up a steep hill from my house to the main road I followed most of the way to school and the main road was a much less steep gradient all the way down to were I turned up a street to go to school.
We sometimes took side streets as a "shortcut" but any way you went, we lived in pretty much a valley and had to go uphill both ways.
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I didn’t go up three hills, what’s going on?
I walked barefoot ten miles every day to school uphill (both ways) ...... in the snow! :-)
It is kind of weird.
I had to walk from my car park at the HS to the field a quarter of a mile away where we were having the ceremony.
I wonder why he couldn’t catch a ride. And why wear your cap and gown on the bus when goodness knows what you could accidentally sit on. Those outfits arent cheap, especially if you have to leave really early on public transportation to get to your school.
That was my first thought. He’s taking a long ride to school to make sure he graduates instead of being out gangbanging. Good for him!
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