We’ve been talking a lot about the school system in Washington State the past few days, most of it bad, so I figured that I should probably get to showing you one of the most successful Washington academic projects.
Monroe inmates become graduates
This graduation, like so many others, had its “Pomp and Circumstance,” its massive bouquets of flowers and its nervous graduates in bright blue caps and gowns, playing with the tassels in their eyes.
But when the cake was finished and the proud families and friends made their way out of the windowless room, these graduates were escorted back to the cells where they would live out the rest of their sentences — from a few months to life without parole — in Monroe’s Washington State Reformatory.
Yep, when the system that taxpayers pay into to actually educate the children of Washington State fails said children miserably, as it does in millions of cases per year, there is always this back up one for those children when they turn into adults and realize what they should have been doing in the first place.
Washington State Motto:
If at first you don’t succeed, tax them again and do it over later.