Palo Alto, California: A Lesson Well Learnt--DUI changes Paly teacher Grant Blackburn’s life outlook

A Lesson Well Learnt: DUI changes Paly teacher’s life outlook

“I flipped my car upside down — took out three hundred feet of fence,” says Grant Blackburn, calmly sitting at his desk in the Palo Alto High School History building, a very different place from where he was 16 years ago when he dazedly staggered out of his wrecked car and was arrested for a DUI. “I was stumbling down the hill like a zombie. It was awful,” Blackburn says. Blackburn, now a veteran social studies teacher at Palo Alto High School was not injured, but he did have to spend an unpleasant night in jail. “They forced me to ...

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