The Pike County Sheriff's Department hosted six students from county and city schools and showed them everything from the inside of the patrol car to the inside of the courtroom. "I rode around with Dennis Riley," said Jon Eric Troesch, an eighth-grader from Banks Middle School. "He took me to look for speeders, but there weren't any so we came back to the courthouse." (...) Troesch said the group of students was able to sit in on some of the court cases. "There was one guy who stole a four-wheeler and another person who stole something and then murdered a guy," he said.
Sounds like great fun - and educational, in the broadest sense. Hands-on learning like that is the kind that sticks with you for life. I commend the local business owners and members of the courthouse and Sheriff's Department that helped these kids get insight into their jobs.
