Louis Ziskin

Like, I didn't even think about honor roll or dean's list.

I just saw my name up there when it came up.

Like, these weren't, it was like, hey, I just got to do this because that's what you got to do here, right?

And it's one of those schools that's in the wilderness.

And they basically said, hey, there's miles and miles of wilderness.

There's no fence here.

If any of you guys can make it out, you have all the survival skills you need.

So I never tried, but a couple of people tried and they failed.

And, you know, there's it's a bunch of crazy shit there.

You have rap sessions every three weeks and you're screaming and yelling at other kids and kids are lying and making up stories about parental abuse because that's the in click.

Right.

Like, oh, the more abuse and trauma you've suffered, the more attention and pat on the back you get.

Right.

The concept was all right.

The implementation was bad.

Right.

um, you know, they didn't realize the whole idea of group counseling works.

It's not like works for some people.

It's not a bad concept, but in practice it was very like, they didn't realize some of the kids were getting worse, not better, you know?

And what I learned there is that I learned if you said the right thing at the right time and the right tone of voice, you could get anything you wanted.