When I was in grade school, I attended Nueva Learning Center, a private school in Hillsborough for gifted and talented children. I attended there from Kindergarten to Fifth grade. A good majority of the students there came from an upper class background while I came from a lower middle class family. My parents were divorced and I lived with my Mother in a small one bedroom apartment in San Francisco. Money was pretty tight and she struggled to send me to the private school and to put herself through Nursing School at the same time. Most of my classmates came from fairly affluent families and

While most of my classmates went on to attend other private schools after graduating from Nueva, my mother could no longer afford to send me to a private school and I went to a public junior high school in San Francisco. Public school was very different and I had some trouble adjusting. There was a wider variety of people I had to deal with and at times I really felt out of place.

lived in large houses on the Peninsula and I would be embarassed to have friends over to my small apartment. To this day I still have insecurities about money and how people percieve my social background.

When I got to high school I started hanging out with the wrong crowd and my grades started to fall. My mother really pressured me to do well in school so I could attend a university after graduation. But being the “all knowing” typical teenager I figured that I didn’t need to go to college or finish high school for that matter and I droped out in my senior year. Soon after leaving high school I left home to enter the world of working and to live on my own.

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