I wasn’t interested; I didn’t care. You know, I just wanted to go and have fun. I wanted to see my friends and I wanted to go party. And I wanted to have a social life. But I could not make school into a social life . . . so I would “ditch” [cut school] all the time.
Sometimes I didn’t know how to do the school work or I didn’t feel like it. My friends encouraged me to go with them to the movies. I made all Fs (failing grades) and that was discouraging. I like fun and attention.
School was boring because they were not teaching me what I needed to know. They were not teaching what will help me in the real world.
There were too many diversions in school. There were groups of kids that socialize all the time. If you didn’t fit in, they looked.....
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