In elementary school I was diagnosed as hyperactive and given medication. Quit the medicine after a couple of months. Got expelled from elementary school at 9yo for getting in to too much trouble and had to go to the next closest school.
Got involved with gangs and ended up going to two different jr. high schools. We moved multiple times to better neighborhoods to avoid the trouble I kept getting into. My mom tried her best but I was incorrigible and she was a working mother and basically a single parent. She did all she could, bless her heart. I quit high school more than once but still managed to graduate (on time) from John Marshall High School in L.A.
Was definitely headed in the wrong direction and then met my future wife when I was 19. My life changed completely for the better after that. That's what the love of a good woman can do.
PS - John Marshall High School is the high school featured in Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" music video.
Go to 4:25 if you want to see the high school and skip the cool song and video.
