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  • - My name's Jason Spires.

  • It's nice to be able to use that name because,

  • for many years, the only name that mattered

  • in my life was Mr. K99397 'cause that was my prison number.

  • Unfortunately, at a very young age,

  • I made a stupid decision to sell cannabis,

  • and I ended up in prison,

  • and I was never really the type

  • that was real good at school.

  • Like, I was smart,

  • but I wouldn't sit around and wouldn't focus.

  • Not trying to make excuses,

  • but my parents had drug addictions.

  • I probably didn't have the best guidance,

  • but I still knowingly made my own choices.

  • So I own up to that, but when I got to prison,

  • I had moments in my life that made me realize

  • I had a distorted notion of what success really was,

  • and fortunately, when I got arrested,

  • it helped my mother get clean and sober,

  • and it helped my father get clean and sober.

  • So I now had parents that were actively involved

  • in trying to do good things for me,

  • and I decided that I wanted to improve my education,

  • and one of the things that I remember is

  • my mother went online to Khan Academy,

  • and she would get printed out transcripts

  • of what the videos were talking about in math,

  • and she'd send me the transcripts, and I'd read over 'em,

  • and from that, I started realizing I understand

  • how fractions work.

  • I understand math on a deeper level.

  • I was always good with it,

  • but now I was getting to the point

  • where I could actually perform well with it.

  • While I was in prison,

  • I was able to, with Khan Academy's transcripts,

  • learn how to do many of the math procedures

  • that helped me perform better on the SAT,

  • and when I got towards the end of my sentence,

  • I was able to get to a work-release program,

  • which allowed me to go to community college,

  • and I had to take the SAT

  • in anticipation of transferring to a university,

  • and I used the Khan Academy SAT prep,

  • and fortunately, I was accepted as a transfer student

  • at Stanford University,

  • and little did I know that a year later I would go

  • to my classroom, and Mr. Khan would be our guest speaker,

  • and I got to tell him something

  • that was very difficult to say

  • but was the truest words I could think of,

  • and that was thank you,

  • and it's not just who he is 'cause, like he said,

  • he did nothing personally for me.

  • It was his organization.

  • It was having videos that were easy to understand.

  • It was being able to learn knowledge without having to admit

  • that I'm stupid because I didn't already know it.

  • It took away the embarrassment factor

  • of having to ask someone else,

  • and so if you're a part of that organization,

  • if you're a donor, if you're Miss Door who gave Mr. Khan

  • the impetus he needed to make this actually happen,

  • thank you because you played a role

  • in me now being a Stanford University student

  • and studying computer science after being locked up 15 years

  • without access to technology.

  • So I appreciate everything that's been done

  • for me in my life,

  • and there's been so many people that's contributed to it,

  • but I can honestly say that Khan Academy

  • and everyone involved with the organization

  • and everyone who has supported its expansion and growth

  • to other students has made an impact upon me,

  • and I can only tell you that there's so many other people

  • that have the potential to make my story nothing

  • if they can just get their hands

  • on the ability to learn the way that I was able to,

  • which Khan Academy was a part of.

- My name's Jason Spires.

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汗的故事。Jason Spyres (Khan Stories: Jason Spyres)

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