Precerpt from Raising God's Rainbow Makers: Young Shane's "Shady" Work for the City Council
When Shane was 12, the city council came to him, asking for help. In those early days of computering, Shane's advanced (and intuitive) computer skills were well known throughout the city. In fact, I once received a call from the local community college HR department. Someone had recommended Shane to teach a computer course. Really? The person on the line wanted to talk to him directly. "I will be happy to go get him," I told him, "but are you aware that Shane is 12 years old? Do you hire professors at that age?" There was a bit of awkwardness on the line, and the speaker then said that there was no need for me to get get Shane. Kinda thought so! He did as a teen teach a workshop for teachers and later he taught for a short while (as a full-fledged adult) for the CHP Academy. But that was later. The city council did have a task he was well equipped to do. They were trying to find out if someone had been covering up a bad history and had come up with nothing in th...