I went to the seed between 8th and 9th grade in the summer. Coincidentally, it was also the year that ninth grade became part of high school.
So, I entered lakewood high at 14 in the ninth grade, with my hair all hacked off in a seed hair cut, a seed tee shirt on and was ridiculed and harassed the whole first week by my old friends and the older upper classmen. My old best friend, whom had been in the Seed, came up to me and as we were talking, told me "the seed sucks" and smiled. Then he said, "My mom pulled me out, fuck that place." AFter that, he became one of my tormentors and I haven't spoke to him since. Later that year he disappeared and I never saw him again.I often wondered what happened to him.
Rick S., if you are out there, hope everything is good for you.