Why Brendon Burchard Was Almost Expelled

Somebody on my mother's side had passed away in Europe and left some money to our family to go to the funeral. That year in school, though, they had rolled out this new rule that says you cannot miss a certain number of days of school, otherwise you're expelled. And so the principal calls me, literally tells me I can't go. I go home. I'm so upset, I cry to my parents. I can't go. So they go in, they talk with the principal. We end up petitioning the school board. We understand why you want to go, young man, but if you could go, then everybody else could go. You can't go. So I'm like, f school, f these people, I went and. And for one of the teachers, I did go back and do the slideshow about the Louvre. And in the back, the high school journalism teacher came to see the presentation. She walked up to me afterwards, and she says, you have an eye. I would like you to come back and be a photographer over the school newspaper. Long story short, that crew wins the number one newspaper in all of the United States.