HeyJaredHigh School Matters
How much did High School shape your life? High School Matters is a podcast dedicated to conversations I have with my former High School students where I set out to find out how High School mattered to them both then and now.
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The Kid Who Got Expelled - Part 2 (opens the original)
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The punch was only the beginning. In Part 1 of The Kid Who Got Expelled , you heard Sam tell the story of the events leading up to the punch that changed two lives—and became a defining moment at Great Neck North. Now, in Part 2, we hear what happened next. Sam opens up about the consequences that followed, how being arrested and expelled changed the direction of his life, and where he went from there. He also looks back on everything that happened with the perspective he has today—what he think
The Kid Who Got Expelled - Part 1 (opens the original)
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Most people remember the punch. Very few know what happened to the person who threw it. In this episode of High School Matters , Randy sits down with Sam, the former Great Neck North student whose single punch became a defining moment not only in another student's life, but in his own. Sam was arrested, expelled from school, and sent down a path he never expected. Now, with Sam's permission, this conversation is being released in its entirety for the first time. Sam speaks candidly about fear, f
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