My name is Arthur;
I have five daughters.
Three daughters actually out of the five
are pursuing their education,
and I think that's pretty darn good.
My name is Stacy, and I am
the youngest of my dad's five daughters.
And she's 27 years old, she's a single mom
presently attending college.
Through elementary school, to high school,
I was a little problem.
Stacy was struggling in high school.
I just decided to have fun in school;
I thought school was all about fun.
There was a lot of peer pressure.
I had some behavior issues,
so sometimes I was kicked out of school.
We put her in a school that was more conducive
to what we felt would help her along the way in life.
That was my 11th-grade year, and although
I got in trouble a lot, I knew what I had to do.
She had a teacher that saw her potential.
I knew I was gonna graduate
because I wanted to for myself.
It was a very big deal.
When I graduated, I felt proud.
I didn't attend college; first of all, I couldn't
afford it at the time, and I wasn't motivated.
I became a 9-to-5 guy.
He encouraged me to go to college even though he didn't.
You know, there are so many kinds
of different job opportunities that,
they're high tech, you know, and you have to
be educated in that field,
in these different fields,
whereas as opposed to me, I-- a bus driver, you know.
My plan was to get my own apartment, my own vehicle
and my own job, and my own identity, I guess.
She started working for a nursing home,
and I told her well Stacy, you can do
something better to help elderly people.
You can become a counselor or some kind of social worker.
And in this day and time, there are a lot of things
presented to, you know, a minority family
that I didn't have as a kid.
There are all kinds of grants that you can utilize,
all sorts of different kinds
of scholarships that they offer minorities.
It must have clicked because she decided
to quit the job, and she went on to pursue her education.
I needed to go to school so that I could do
what I want to do and be who I want to be.
I've always wanted my kids to do
better than what I've done in life,
you know, so education would be the way for them.
It only takes someone that's gonna support them
to get behind them and to reassure them
that what you're doing can help you, your kids.
She can be an example for her daughter.
So I see myself getting my bachelor's in a few years,
and I just see myself being able
to provide for my daughter and have the family,
even if it's a single family, just being able
to be a role model to my own daughter.
I think it's one of the best things
that ever happened to me in my life, because
she's done something I never dreamed I would do--
to seek an education where she can
get a degree and live better.