James Talarico

And I was feeling like I was on top of the world as a teacher.

I was like, who's going to make the movie, right?

Like, here I am, right?

Sandra Bullock's going to play you in a movie.

Yeah, yeah, who's going to play me?

And then I came back after winter break.

I was in my third period class, and I heard this commotion out in the hallway.

So I immediately stepped out of the room to see what was going on.

And there were two of our coaches, and they were both restraining Justin, either side of him.

They were carrying him out of the school.

He was screaming.

His feet didn't touch the ground.

Like he literally was just carried out of the school.

I found out that he had started a fight in his third grade class and that was his last strike.

And it was the last time I ever saw Justin.

I did some digging to figure out what had happened.

Turns out in the previous semester, Justin had been seeing a therapist that was provided by the school district.

And it was this lady that he really was hitting it off with and getting along with.

And they were going through all his issues because Justin had been abandoned by his mother.

At a very early age, which that'll screw anybody up, right?