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Balancing work, family, and learning while seeking RSCC degree Bob Fowler/Special to The Oak Ridger Erin “Tisha” Valdez, a school bus driver in Oak Ridge, said she enjoys one Roane State professor’s class so much she asked her employer for two afternoons off each week so she could attend.  The company, First Student, was short on drivers but agreed, enabling Valdez to take Isabel Benitez-Ramirez’s Anatomy & Physiology II class this semester. “She is amazing,” Valdez said of Benitez...

Oak Ridge Today Posted at By Bob Fowler Roane State staff writer Erin “Tisha” Valdez, a school bus driver in Oak Ridge, enjoys one Roane State professor’s class so much she asked her employer for two afternoons off each week so she could attend. The company, First Student, was short on drivers but agreed, enabling Valdez to take Dr. Isabel Benitez-Ramirez’s Anatomy and Physiology II class this semester. “She is amazing,” Valdez said of Benitez-Ramirez. Sticking with Benitez-Ramirez...