Yeah, bipolar. At that time I was something of a basket case, and showed Autism, ADHD, manic depression, and mild Tourrette's, though by puberty the Tourrette's went away, the ADHD's died down, and my time off of lithium shows that maybe the bipolar is receeding as well, which is good. My dad says my mother has bipolar when she has clinical depression, but luckily at least with me anyone with a postgraduate degree saw through his manipulative BS.
Public schools and colleges are a joke here. Private K-12 education and private universities will teach you what you need to know - it's why they're nearly exclusive to the wealthy.
Private institutions are open to anyone who qualifies to attend them (such as certain religious beliefs or other circumstances such as single-gender institutions) and can afford to attend them. They aren't just exclusive to the "wealthy," as you put it.
That's really what I was talking about. Ivies such as Dartmouth and Harvard are over 25K a year, and our local private high school here in Colorado Springs – Valor as they call it – is two grand per semester. By the way, Valor owns every school in the state in their athletics, not just in academia, so I imagine their mentality on school leans a lot more toward giving a ♥♥♥♥ and less towards "lets drop out because screw school" like so much of our middle- and lower-class youth does. What parent in their right minds would pay 16 thousand dollars on a high school education and allow that sort of mentality, eh?
