yes i did eventually go home, patched things up with my parents, and went back to highschool. my senior year i pulled straight A's, and i went on to college where i earned my bachelors degree in film/video with a minor in communications. my television career never happened, and i ended up going back to school part time and i earned my associates degree in construction management. i'm now a general contractor (i went onto business with my father), and i make a decent living at it. even though life turned out okay for me, i did a lot of crazy shit for years after cedu, lots of drugs, fighting, lots criminal shit, not to mention i was a total pig who fucked anything that touched him. eventually i settled down, got married, and my wife gave birth to our 1st son this past april. looking back now i'm amazed that i'm not dead, in jail, or suffering from an std right now. i know that god was looking out for me.
why did i get sent to cedu? basically i was a young, stupid kid, who thought he knew everything, and wouldn't listen to anyone. my body had grown much faster than my mind did (at 14 i was already 6'-1"), when i realized that my parents couldn't bully me around anymore (my dad was the physical type), i decided i could do whatever i wanted. i skipped school, smoked pot, started having sex, hung out with gang bangers,i was openly defiant, i didn't even try to hide what i was doing. i was sent to cedu because no one could control me.
the one thing i learned from the cedu experience is that i can't just do anything i want, some where down the line i would have to pay for it. after cedu, i got my head out of my ass and decided i wanted to be somebody, and the only way to be someone is to have goals and work towards them, and not just fuck off all of the time expecting good things to come to me. if you want something out of life, then you have to make it happen.
was cedu the only way for me to realize that? no i don't believe so. i think eventually i would have grown up and come to my senses, or have had the sense knocked into me. perhaps my experiences from cedu helped speed the process up a bit, being on the streets makes you grow up pretty fast, but i firmly believe that i would have made it okay the same, with or without cedu.