Student #6

Hello, my name is [name redacted] and I'm from Yorba Linda, California. When I was 10 years old my mother passed away of cancer and my, newly married, brother took me in under his wing as his own. From that point on my life went down hill. I was always a rebellious kid, but it had gotten worse after my mother passed away. It had all stemmed from the root of bitterness, which was growing in my heart against God. At the time I didn't know that my mother dying was all a part of God's divine plan for my life.

When I was about 13, being an 8th grader at Kraemer Junior High, I had involved myself with the wrong group of kids and started doing a number of things that I should have never been doing. It was all because I wanted to be accepted. I started doing a lot of experimenting with drugs and parties, and going to new places I had never been. I also skipped school with my "friends". My brother and his wife hadn't known for a while, but when he found out I got sent to a Christian all girls school which specialized in helping teens like me. It was exactly what I had needed. This all happened right after I had turned 14.

While I was there I tried to buck the program and get away with whatever I could. I thought that if I was bad enough than I could get kicked out, but you can't get kicked out of this program. I did a lot of manipulating and pulled many uncalled for actions to get myself kicked out, but everything I was doing was not working. My hole of trouble just seemed to be getting worse and worse. The more I did the more