Despite life’s challenges, he earned his diploma

“Now I feel good when I tell my son that he needs to stay in school and finish.”
“I stopped going to school before I graduated so I could work full time and because I was already going to start a family. When my sister graduated I was like, ‘Well, maybe I could have graduated, too.’
“I’ve got my GED now. It shows that I put in the effort and did finish my education. It feels pretty good.”
— Frank Martinez