How This All Started

I enjoy reading the newspaper and began following columns written by Matthew Tully of the Indianapolis Star.  Mr. Tully had just started a series of articles about his experiences at Manual High School here in Indianapolis.  For those of you that are not familiar with Manual it is a public school on the south side of Indianapolis that has a history of poor student performance and low graduation rates.  As the school year progressed Mr. Tully wrote on both the good and the bad about the school.  I found the stories to be fascinating and looked forward to reading each of his columns about the school.  One of his columns talked about the need for volunteers at the school and I thought to myself maybe I could be a school volunteer.  After a good deal of procrastinating I took the big step and inquired about being a volunteer at a grade school near my home and after passing a background check I was accepted.