Arielle Kirton, a student at SIATech Inland Empire, admits that her life was filled with fighting, smoking, drinking, and running away from home prior to coming to Job Corps. She rarely attended school; and when she did, it was just to hang out and get into more trouble. She had no respect for teachers or staff at all. Some of the lowest points of her life were a stint in Juvenile Hall and a fight that seriously injured another student by throwing her arm through a window.

Since coming to the Job Corps and the SIATech High School program, she has realized a complete turnaround in attitude and actions. She doesn’t know exactly when it happened, but she concluded that her life was not going anywhere because she still had the same behaviors as before.