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    The document describes the author's experience attending a prep school called Casady at age 15. They did not know how to study and preferred playing jazz trumpet with a small band. Their mother sent them to Casady to help them succeed, as their father was no longer around after a divorce. The author struggled at first as one of the only Jewish students, and was bullied by a class bully. Every Monday, the author would beg their mother to let them transfer to the local public school instead due to intense anxiety, but their mother encouraged them to stick it out until Friday when their confidence was usually higher. After the first difficult year, the author began learning how to study better and their grades improved, making their experience at

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    The document describes the author's experience attending a prep school called Casady at age 15. They did not know how to study and preferred playing jazz trumpet with a small band. Their mother sent them to Casady to help them succeed, as their father was no longer around after a divorce. The author struggled at first as one of the only Jewish students, and was bullied by a class bully. Every Monday, the author would beg their mother to let them transfer to the local public school instead due to intense anxiety, but their mother encouraged them to stick it out until Friday when their confidence was usually higher. After the first difficult year, the author began learning how to study better and their grades improved, making their experience at

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    1: So 2: Consequenquently 3: As A Result 4: However 5

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    Vianey Garcia
    The document describes the author's experience attending a prep school called Casady at age 15. They did not know how to study and preferred playing jazz trumpet with a small band. Their mother sent them to Casady to help them succeed, as their father was no longer around after a divorce. The author struggled at first as one of the only Jewish students, and was bullied by a class bully. Every Monday, the author would beg their mother to let them transfer to the local public school instead due to intense anxiety, but their mother encouraged them to stick it out until Friday when their confidence was usually higher. After the first difficult year, the author began learning how to study better and their grades improved, making their experience at

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    of 2

    1: So

    2: Consequenquently

    3: as a result

    4: however

    5:

    6: despite

    7: thought

    8: however

    9: so that
    10: in case

    11: altough

    12: becouse of

    13:so as not top

    14:so that

    15: but

    When I was 15 my mother sent me to a prep school called Casady. I did not know how to study, was a
    bit lazy and was totally ‘taken’ with playing jazz on a trumpet with a small band. My mother was a
    concert pianist so you’d think she could appreciate my love of the trumpet but times were different, I
    guess. Needed to get on with ‘making something of myself’ as she would intimate as my dad was gone
    from their nasty divorce when I was six, so I wasn’t going into his business: May Brothers Clothing
    Company.

    Anyway, I barely got into Casady. It was for very bright, rich kids and I was neither. I was the only Jew in
    the school which had its own stigma resulting in ‘meeting the lockers’ with my head from time to time
    thanks to the class bully.

    That first year I was in 10th grade. Every Monday morning, I would lie on the couch in the front room of
    our house, dressed in a tie and jacket for 8 AM chapel literally shaking like a leaf, begging my mother to
    send me to the local public school-John Marshall-and out of Casady. “If you can just make it until Friday
    and you still feel the same way I’ll get you into John Marshall.” She spoke.

    My confidence was higher by Friday so I just stayed with it. After that first year, I was learning how to
    study and my grades improved. Things began to look brighter.

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