At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

I taught high school students Spanish.

If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

It's a little hard to believe 40-year-old men as high school students.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.