Retiree takes teaching skills to prison
To get to his freshman composition 101 class, Dave Bishop hands over his car keys and driver’s license, writes his name on a sign-in sheet and waits to get buzzed through 10 locked doors.
The 22 students in his Tuesday and Thursday night classes appear unremarkable in their uniform of light blue shirt, dark blue pants and white athletic shoes. But their reason for taking Bishop’s class sets them apart from the rest of the inmates at the Illinois River Correctional Center located in central Illinois.
"They want to learn," said Bishop, 65, a former IEA board member.