Tip o' the eyepatch to Jeremy Hernandez
and a second tip o' the eyepatch to Dunwoody Institute for doing the right thing:If school bus evacuator Jeremy Hernandez wants to resume learning auto mechanics at Dunwoody College of Technology, he can do so without charge.This blog will return to its regularly-scheduled mirth and frivolity very soon, so stay tuned!The Minneapolis school made that offer to Hernandez’s family Saturday.
Hernandez drew national attention when he played a lead role in the evacuation of 61 kids and staff from a school bus caught up in last week’s Interstate 35W bridge collapse.
They were out a field trip from Waite House community agency in the Phillips area of Minneapolis.
In news coverage afterward, Hernandez said that he was working as a youth worker at Waite House after he’d been forced to drop out of Dunwoody for lack of money. The school’s tuition and fees typically run $15,000 annually.
posted by The Pirate of Selby Avenue @ 12:43 PM
2 Comments:
It's about time someone does something like that! Why can't that just happen without him having to prove himself in a life or death situation?
Random acts of kindness should happen more often.
This guy is even cooler than I thought:
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Mr. Hernandez was not available to comment on the offer; Ms. Schwartz said he left town for northern Minnesota late on Friday, overwhelmed by the attention and concerned that his co-workers were being overlooked. He spent the weekend fishing. When President Bush’s staff contacted him to request a photo opportunity, “He was just, like, ‘Nope,’ ” she said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/07hero.html?ei=508...
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