Should be on the front page.
Self-Made Educator Fulfills a Vision for Boys in ClevelandHT / Hugh Hewett
He did not want to join the team.
The teenager wanted to enroll at the public school Ginn foundedto give at-risk boys enough care, structure and education to succeed. Ginn suggested that the aspiring freshman, Joseph Williams, get a haircut and meet him in his office the next morning.
Williams shaved his head and rode his bike four miles to the school.
“I’m still young,” he told Ginn and the school’s principal, Byron Lyons. “I still have a chance.” After spending 21 days in jail with men facing life sentences, he said, he no longer wanted to be in “that other life.”
The school, Ginn Academy, had a spot for him, and Williams teared up. “I feel blessed,” he said.
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