Last night I received a lay-in to go to a class today. I didn't ask for it, but I have been placed in a cognitive intervention class. This is a class many guys are put in before parole to help them stop themselves before making bad decisions.I don't know if they put me in the class because my parole is coming up soon or not.
The class is three hours long - noon to three - every weekday for three months. It wouldn't be so bad if the class itself wasn't so nuts. About three quarters of the twenty person class just acts up and disrupts the class. The teacher sounds like a public radio talk show host and doesn't seem to care about us but just wants to be right. Looking around the room, I recognized many posters showing techniques I learned in my two years of therapeutic counseling prior to incarceration. I asked the teacher after class what good this class would be for me if I've done most of it all before. Her answer was that "it becomes official."
So, the next three months will have three hours a day wasted so I can get a piece of paper. Just another hoop to jump through.
* "Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind." - Karl Barth
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