I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.
Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.
I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
I was very unmotivated at school.
Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?
The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.
