As a young girl I was always drawn towards the bad boy type. Yea in grade school I had the regular boy crush; school boy, jock, athlete, even the class clown? Eventually my attention would end up focused on the boy in the back of the class, doing too much or nothing at all. Driving the poor teachers crazy by just the mere occupying of space in their classrooms? Back in the 70's the schools often identified bad kids with being challenged, and if you were challenged, you were crazy and if you were crazy you were going to "The EH" class. EH meaning "extra help!" What I didn't understand is the same kids that were in "The EH" class, were the same kids walking around the neighborhood with us everyday? They didn't need extra help in school they were just bad!

In the fifth grade his name was Eric and he had wild looking hair, with a high pitch voice! He was a grade above me and he was a menace to our school. The teachers found him obnoxious, but I liked him though. In some weird way I couldn't wait to see what kind of bad behavior he was displaying that day? He would get in trouble and he would do things like throw chairs across the classroom because he was mad or get kicked out the class and continuously kick and hit the door until someone opened it up again? We could always hear what was going on in other classes, and we always knew it was "The EH" class. Back then it took a lot to get suspended or expelled? The teachers were tough and no nonsense and they addressed you accordingly. Principles had to get involved very little. Eric found himself in the principal's office a few times though. One time I walked down to the office to see if he was going to get in trouble? Sure enough he was getting a swat!

Walking home from school he was just as regular as all the rest of us kids? Still clowning around still joking still being a menace. Eric wasn't challenged he was Badd!