re: Anybody get sent to military school because they were such a jag off as a kid?

Went to Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville,GA for a year. My mom wasn’t happy with my academic prowess and wanted to get my mind right. It worked. There were a bunch of kids with millionaire parents. My suite mate was Manuel Noriega nephew. He was pretty cool. His dad was the interior minister in Panama.
A lot of the students were in trouble with the law back home. Mostly drug related. Judges would tell parents either they go to juvenile detention or send to Military School.
They had a helo pad at the school where parents could fly a chopper in to pick their kids up. My parents made me take fricking Amtrak from Gainesville to Hammond when zi came home.