Drugs, Violence & the Childhood I Called Normal. Jason Hughes EP. 14

So you kind of had to jump around a little bit in school.

You didn't have like a, did you have a consistent place or did you have to move quite frequently?

I had a consistent place for about two years.

One time

that was, yeah.

Yeah.

This is one of those things that I, when I tell people like, Oh, what school did you go to? I'm like, at what point?

Yeah.

I went to 12 different elementary schools in the Sacramento area, 14 different times.

And I remember those two numbers, but I can't remember the, the, chronological order of all of them anymore i just know that it went from like william land i went to nicholas elementary school in south sacramento i went to like greer elementary school a couple times thomas edison i went all over the place on average we moved about every six to eight months and that was because mom was getting kicked out of places for various reasons or there was a few times where she had to go to jail so we'd end up going somewhere else and living with people And for most of that, it was me and my brother.

Like I mentioned, my sister was 10 years younger than me, so she came a lot later.

So yeah, I did not, I was always the new kid.

And most times I was one of, if not the only white kids in the entire school.

And yeah, it moved a lot.

I had to constantly be the new person, had to learn how to make friends, if I can make friends.

Yeah.

Got my butt kicked quite a bit.

Yeah.

And then after elementary school, went to two different junior highs and then two high schools.

And high school is really where things started to finally settle down for me.

And what did your mom do for work during majority of that time? Or was she working?

Wasn't working almost my entire life.

I can't remember a time that my mom wasn't on government assistance.

So welfare, she was one of those people that constantly talked about, oh, just wait till we get on section eight.

We'll live a lot better.