Kevin Tunis

I was to graduate in 1977, in which school was hard for me. Let me go back to grade school in Satanta, Kansas, I was always having issues with reading and basic math and concentration on study was difficult. At the age of 10 or 11 (I am not sure as dates and times are still difficult even today), teachers said that I had dyslexia. It was at this time my parents found Calvert’s Academy, a school for dyslexia in Albuquerque, New Mexico; this school was named after it founder, James Calvert.. Being in a rural area at that time, Satanta Kansas grade school was not capable to handle or train dyslexia students as it is today. After 1977 I did take some college classes though I did not have a high school diploma. I simply told the colleges I was not concerned with the credits and they let me take the classes with the acknowledgment that I would not get any credits. Now let me bring you forward to 2006, while driving down the road I heard a advertisement on the radio about getting a high school diploma, not a GED, but a diploma. So I stopped and wrote down the phone number and the contacts name - Sublette Community Learning Center. After calling Irene Perez, I signed up to get my diploma on-line through Southwest Plains Regional Service Center. Though it took me two years, the first year was with Bill Nichols and the second year Tamina Fromme took over. I was actually done in December 2007 but graduation wasn’t till May. It took me 30 years but I did it and on May 11, 2008, I received my High School Diploma!