By Josh Day
When I started Mini-School a week or two ago, Doug approached me and ask me if I had anything I would like to write for Com-Mini-Cations. I said I would have to think about it. I thought about it the rest of the class time and went home with still nothing to write about. The next day I came to class and Doug suggested since I have such a great deal of family members that have been through the program, why don’t you write about them. I thought about it for a minute and said, “Sure.” He told me that my Mom, Betty, my Uncles, Ted and Frank Pfiffner had been in the program, along with my Dad, Roger and Uncles, Mark, David and Boone Day had been in it. He also said that that is the most family members that anyone had ever had in it today.
I got home that day and asked my mom, “What did all of you do in there?” She said that they went on camping and biking trips and got in trouble. My mom also said that she would have never of made it through high school without Mini-School. She really enjoyed Mini-School, the trips and the people in the program.
Some people say that you can’t get an education through Mini School. But my mom said that everyone she can think of from Mini has their own business and is doing well. The others have secure jobs. She said she has more friends now, having gone to Mini-School then she would have with Mainstream.