Leyva G V Intermediate School

Never went here for school. Been out of intermediate school for 10+ years ago, believe it or not. Friend introduced me to this vacant wonderful track. Sometimes there is soccer practice or baseball games across the way. Track is normally empty. Good to run on this track to clear your mind.

I had a pretty great time unaware of how enormous and awkward my body was during 7^th and 8^th grade. Luckily I was plucked from sixth grade and placed into the «honors» programs at Leyva. So although I was somewhat aware of other kids, who couldn’t pass classes where all you had to do was listen to books on tape, sexing it up, slanging, or just plain cutting behind the math building. I suppose that is the key to public schooling, just get into the «honors» programs because the teachers don’t teach you like inmates and you don’t have to do as much bullshit homework instead you do «projects» which merely reveal how awkward and capricious you are at that age. The teachers were characters but were also encouraging of their little ruffians. I imagine half of them drove home to Scotts Valley feeling like Michelle Pfieffer in Dangerous Minds. Leyva was alright, it’s only two years and besides Innerlude played an assembly for us right after they were on the Jenny Jones show. The East Side has always gotten a bad rap but back then we had personality and astoundingly, a little more class.