I will never die. Students trickle in around 9 a.m. In respect for Archie and his family, school was closed for one day while students attended the funeral. Schoolwork is self-directed. Students, many of whom have a variety of learning challenges, study English, Math, Socials Studies and other basics while they work to attain their high school equivalency.
Some people have quite severe learning disabilities.
Many students attend school even though as adults they ride the school bus because they don t have vehicles. There s a high degree of commitment. When he s not at school, James, who has a background in surveying and spent 18 years working as an archeologist before he went back to school and earned his teaching degree in 1992, is working on his master s degree in archeology. He works with John D Auria, a Simon Fraser University chemistry professor on archeometry a mixture of archeology, chemistry and physics. The two source obsidian samples and study its chemical fingerprint to determine where it originated.