He's done lot of thinking about why college did not work out the time, and fact, it's part of what motivated him to pursue education.
Born and raised on the west side of Detroit, Russell enrolled at Eastern in 1997, and he says he could never quite get my feet planted..
Working in the shipping and receiving area, and later, prep and catering, Russell says things started to get much more settled in his life.
One day, he sat down and calculated all the driving he was doing, and figured out he had spent 120 days of his life so far simply driving back and forth to Toledo.
Soon after, Russell enrolled in the preparation program at UM-Dearborn encountered crew of professors.
In some ways, he says it would be dream to mirror the story, albeit somewhat later, of his cooperating teacher.
The site of Redford High School, once grand icon of Detroit's robust school system, is now Meijer.
And there is not even in the west side neighborhood where he grew up..
If not Detroit, Russell says there are plenty of schools west of the city and Downriver where he thinks he'd be good fit..
He said it's often assumed that teachers are myth he finds is recycled at least once in movies like Lean on Me, Dangerous Minds, and Freedom Writers.
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