Justin Latimer:  

I was born on.....nah, just kidding. I grew up in GA and as you can see, I attended various school in the general McDonough/Stockbridge/Conyers, GA area. My parents decided to move to a small West Texas town near Lubbock. I was about 13 at the time. Unfortunately, after spending the best two years of my school life at YACS with life-long friends I still keep in touch to this day, my folks decided to homeschool myself and my two younger siblings since we would be moving soon. When we moved to Texas, I started school at Crosbyton High School in Crosbyton, TX. High school wasn't that great. I made really good grades and graduated #5 in my class in '04. Those 4 years of high school were rather rocky. As it tends to be with small town, politics pretty much ran everything. Students connected to the school through the administration and school board did not have to worry about their grades. It became more and more blatant as the years went by. Those of use who were not politically connected to the school had to actually earn our grades and had to work 10 times as hard to keep up with the politicians' kids. My Sophomore year, I rocked the boat of politics when I wrote a controversial letter to the editor of the county paper expressing my shame that our school band, of which I was a member of all 4 years had the song Amazing Grace pulled from out show for the football game right after 9/11 for unknown reasons. That didn't set to well with the arrogant Superintendent, so the morning the letter was published, he called me into his office and gave me a long and hard tongue-lashing about my letter. He then forbad me to write anymore letters to the editor without his approval or assistance when drafting it. The Superintendent then called the editor of the paper and asked him why he published it. The editor simply said "freedom of speech." After consulting with attorneys, it became evident that the Superintendent blatantly violated the first amendment through prior restraint when he forbad me to write anymore letters to the editor without his approval. After meticulous research, it came to our attention that this was not the first time he had done something like this. Amazingly, each past case was covered up and completely disappeared. Soon after, we filed federal lawsuit for Constitutional rights violation. Immediately, the entire area plunged into chaos and became divided with supporters of my case and those who were loyal to the superintendent whether right or wrong. The next two years were the roughest of my life. I knew what I was doing was right, but it was hard to deal with all the criticism, profanity, death threats, and persecution. And I couldn...Expand for more